Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko
, also known as The Man Who Stole the Sun, is a 1979 Japanese political satire spy film, directed by Hasegawa Kazuhiko and written by Leonard Schrader.
Plot
Makoto Kido, a high school science and chemistry teacher, has decided to build his own atomic bomb. Before stealing plutonium isotopes from Tōkai 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, he is able to overcome the hijacker and is publicly hailed as a hero.
More details
| author | Leonard Schrader |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Asia |
| director | Kazuhiko Hasegawa |
| editor | Akira Suzuki |
| genre | action comedy-drama political satire |
| keywords | arrest atomic bomb baseball game cut field trip keith richards nuclear power plant plutonium police detective power line power plant radioactive rolling stones steal the rolling stones tōkai nuclear power plant |
| musicBy | Takayuki Inoue |
| producer | Mataichiro Yamamoto |
| productionCompany | Kitty Films |
| publisher | Toho Universal Pictures |
| theme | buddy high school japanese police comedy satirical spy spy comedy war |