Yes. Venus takes about 243 Earth days to complete one full rotation on its axis, but only about 225 Earth days to complete one orbit around the Sun — so a single full spin of the planet lasts longer than its entire year, and Venus spins backward, meaning the Sun would rise in the west.
Picture two races running at once. In the first race, Venus travels along its orbit around the Sun, and it completes that lap in roughly 225 Earth days. In the second race, Venus turns on its own axis like a slow top — and that turn is so slow it needs roughly 243 Earth days to come all the way back around. The orbit race is simply faster. Any calendar based on trips around the Sun would tick over to a new year while the planet was still partway through a single spin.
Venus is the slowest spinner in the solar system, and nobody is fully certain why. One leading idea is that a enormous collision long ago knocked its rotation down and flipped it, which would also explain the strangest detail of all: Venus does not just spin slowly, it spins the other way.
There is a second, equally true number, and honest explainers should name it. The 243-day figure measures one full spin against the distant stars. But what a person standing on Venus would experience — sunrise to the next sunrise — works out to about 117 Earth days. The backward spin combined with the forward orbit makes the Sun come back around sooner than the full spin suggests.
Both statements hold at the same time: the spin (243 days) outlasts the year (225 days), while the cycle of daylight as experienced on the surface runs about 117 Earth days. Either way, a "day" on Venus stretches across what would be months on Earth — and nobody could actually stand there to watch it, since the surface is hot enough to melt lead under crushing pressure. The sunrise in the west remains a thought experiment, and a wonderful one.
See the short version: "On Venus, a Day Outlasts a Year — Things You Didn't Know" on LOE PRESSURE (Science #36).
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Sources: NASA Space Place, "All About Venus" — https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-venus/en/; NASA StarChild, Venus page. Rotation ~243 Earth days (sidereal), orbit ~225 Earth days, retrograde spin, and ~117 Earth-day solar cycle as described by NASA.