The Man Who Stole the Sun (Taiyô wo Nusunda Otoko)

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Directed by

Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Starring (View all)

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 Sato
Dr. Ichikawa

Yûnosuke Itô
Bus Hijacker

Eimei Esumi
Egawa

Written by

Leonard Schrader

Kazuhiko Hasegawa
(screenplay)

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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.

Release date: 9 October 1980

Tags: Japan (2), 1970s (2), East Asia (1), Retro Asian (1)

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"Despite an unfortunate 30 minutes of dullness around the middle, The Man Who Stole the Sun leaves one with a desire for much more, thanks to the fact that this movie should probably end at two hours but then it goes completely bonkers and gives you all the things you never knew you needed to top off a movie about a guy building a nuke and not really knowing what to demand from his country to not blow it up. There's an earnest attempt in the end of exploring the mythology people like him are obse"

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"3.8. Koulun tiedeopettaja päättää valmistaa atomipommin ja pitää Tokiota panttivankinaan tietämättä, mitä oikeasti haluaa vastineeksi. Valmistusprosessin huolellisuutta painottava opettaja suojautuu säteilyltä kertakäyttöhanskoilla ja mopokypärällä. Sitten hän pistää atomipommin uuniin ja unohtuu katsomaan baseballia kalja kourassa. Homma menee plörinäksi, mutta pommi saadaan lopulta kasaan. Tässä vaiheessa kuvioihin astuu huikealla innolla työtään tekevä yrmypoliisi"