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Rising Sun
1993
· Movie
· 129 min
D
MEANRANK
55/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4751
- IMDb #3990
- Rotten Tomatoes #4489
- Metacritic #2792
- Letterboxd #4162
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4647
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4584
- Metacritic Critics #2853
- Metacritic Audience #2620
- Criticker #2825
- Kinopoisk #3538
- AlloCiné #3663
- Trakt #3858
Every rating
32–68
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 32, highest is Metacritic users on 68. Critics average 44, everyone else 57.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A veteran LAPD detective and a expert in Japanese culture are partnered to investigate the murder of a woman found in the headquarters of a powerful Japanese corporation. The investigation plunges them into the cutthroat world of international business, where cultural differences and corporate secrecy complicate their search for the truth.
Details
- Director
- Philip Kaufman
- Writers
- Michael Backes, Michael Crichton, Philip Kaufman
- Based on
- Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
- Studio
- Walrus & Associates, 20th Century Fox
- Released
- 30 July 1993
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $107.2M
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