The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
Taiyô wo nusunda otoko (original title)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Bunta Sugawara	...	Inspector Yamashita
	Kenji Sawada	...	Makoto Kido
	Kimiko Ikegami	...	Zero Sawai
	Kazuo Kitamura	...	Tanaka, the director of the National Police Agency
	Shigeru Kôyama	...	Nakayama
	Kei Satô	...	Dr. Ichikawa
	Yûnosuke Itô	...	Bus Hijacker
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Eimei Esumi	...	Egawa
	Hiroshi Gojo	...	Identikit Officer
	Tatsuya Hamaguchi
	Hajime Hoshi
	Junichi Hosokawa
	Akinobu Imamura
	Yukiko Inoue
	Yudai Ishiyama	...	Detective Ishikawa

Storyline

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... Written by Serdar Yegulalp  

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