The Man Who Stole The Sun

– A high-school teacher (Kenji Sawada) builds an atomic bomb to hold Tokyo hostage, then cannot decide..

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Movie
Rating:
7.70 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 27 Minutes
Release Year:
1979
Original Name:
太陽を盗んだ男
The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) - Also known as 太陽を盗んだ男

A high-school teacher (Kenji Sawada) builds an atomic bomb to hold Tokyo hostage, then cannot decide what he wants.

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The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) - Trailer

Release Date:

09 Oct 1980

Language:

Japanese

Director:

Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Writer:

Leonard Schrader (screenplay), Kazuhiko Hasegawa (screenplay), Leonard Schrader (story)

Main Actors:

Bunta Sugawara, Kenji Sawada, Kimiko Ikegami, Kazuo Kitamura

Plot:

A misfit high-school science teacher decides to build his own atomic bomb. He steals isotopes from a nuclear reactor and manages to create two warheads, but at the same time is present at a botched school-bus hijacking and is publicly coronated as a hero. Nevertheless, he uses the bombs to extort the police, first by demanding that baseball games be shown without commercial interruptions and then by having the Rolling Stones play in Japan despite their drug bust. Soon it's a race to see what wins first: the determined cop who's after him, the bomb he's carrying, or a burgeoning case of radiation poisoning...

Awards:

8 wins & 7 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.7/10