A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.
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Title: The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
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| Bunta Sugawara | ... | Inspector Yamashita | |
| Kenji Sawada | ... | Makoto Kido | |
| Kimiko Ikegami | ... | Zero Sawai | |
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Kazuo Kitamura | ... | Tanaka, the director of the National Police Agency |
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Shigeru Kôyama | ... | Nakayama |
| Kei Satô | ... | Dr. Ichikawa | |
| Yûnosuke Itô | ... | Bus Hijacker | |
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Eimei Esumi | ... | Egawa |
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Hiroshi Gojô | ... | Identikit Officer |
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Tatsuya Hamaguchi | ||
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Hajime Hoshi | ||
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Junichi Hosokawa | ||
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Akinobu Imamura | ||
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Yukiko Inoue | ||
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Yûdai Ishiyama | ... | Detective Ishikawa |
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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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Yamashita: You're a teacher? What do you teach?
Makoto Kido: Science.
Yamashita: Hm. I don't think science isn't going to help us right now.
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At one point when Kenji Sawada is fending off the nuclear plant workers, the sound effects are taken from the video game Space Invaders (1978) which was enjoying massive success in Japan at the time of the movie's release. The movie begins and ends with exactly the same sound: a ticking clock, and then an explosion. See more »Quotes
[On their way to appease a hostage-taker.]Yamashita: You're a teacher? What do you teach?
Makoto Kido: Science.
Yamashita: Hm. I don't think science isn't going to help us right now.
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