The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
Taiyô wo nusunda otoko
147 min
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
- Release date
- October 6, 1979
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Music
- Takayuki Inoue
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Trailer
Cast
- Kenji Sawada as Makoto Kido
- Bunta Sugawara as Inspector Yamashita
- Kimiko Ikegami as Zero Sawai
- Kazuo Kitamura as Tanaka, the Director of the National Police Agency
- Shigeru Kôyama as Nakayama
- Kei Satō as Dr. Ichikawa
- Yūnosuke Itō as Bus Hijacker
- Eimei Esumi as Egawa
- Hiroshi Gojô as Identikit Officer
- Yūdai Ishiyama as Detective Ishikawa
- Morio Kazama as Asai
- Hōsei Komatsu as Loan Officer
- Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Suspect on TV News
- Kōjirō Kusanagi as Technician of Phone Company
- Yutaka Mizutani as Police Officer
- Toshiyuki Nishida as Loan Collector
- Saburô Shôji as Detective Mizushima
- Kyôko Togawa as Student
- Yukiko Inoue
- Tatsuya Hamaguchi
- Toshizō Kudō
- Ken Mizoguchi
- Midori Mori
- Takayuki Ohira
- Ryôichi Satô
- Dennis Falt as CIA agent
Crew
- Kazuhiko Hasegawa · Director
- Leonard Schrader · Writer
- Kazuhiko Hasegawa · Writer
- Kei Ijichi · Producer
- Takayuki Inoue · Composer
- Tatsuo Suzuki · Cinematographer
- Akira Suzuki · Editor
- Yoshinaga Yoko'o · Production designer