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The Man Who Stole the Sun is a film of genre Science fiction directed by Kazuhiko Hasegawa released in USA on 9 october 1980 with Kenji Sawada
The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
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Add to a movie listTaiyō o Nusunda Otoko (太陽を盗んだ男), also known as The Man Who Stole the Sun, is a 1979 satirical film from Japan, directed by Hasegawa Kazuhiko and written by Leonard Schrader.
Synopsis
Makoto (Kenji Sawada), a high school science and chemistry teacher, has decided to build his own atomic bomb. Before stealing plutonium isotopes from a nearby nuclear power plant, he is involved in the botched hijack of one of his school's buses during a field trip. Along with a police detective, Yamashita (Bunta Sugawara), he is able to overcome the hijacker and is publicly hailed as a hero.Actors
Kenji Sawada
(Makoto Kido)
Bunta Sugawara
(Inspector Yamashita)
Shigeru Kōyama
(Nakayama)
Kei Satō
(Dr. Ichikawa)
Yūnosuke Itō
(Bus Hijacker)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
(Suspect on TV News)
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