Rising Sun SPV

Last night Rising Sun was on FX and it made for some interesting channel flipping between the movie, the NCAA men's basketball and Holy Cross taking on North Dakota in NCAA hockey action.

Rising Sun was written by Michael Crichton who is a very interesting man. He graduated from Harvard Medical School only to decide he wanted to be a writer instead. Crichton lived for a time in Japan and the role of John Connor was written specifically with Sean Connery in mind.

As far as Star Power Value (SPV) - the movie ranks surprisingly high.

Rising Sun - SPV 30 (Connery 15, Snipes 3, Keitel 5, Tagawa 1, Mako 3, Carrere 3). The movie would have a SPV of 36 if you wanted to give Steve Buscemi credit as having one of the starring roles but his weasel reporter character was only in a couple of scenes.

PS - I love the fact that Mako is the voice of Aku in Samuri Jack and that Tia Carrere once played a character named Venus Poon.