The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)

7.4/10 147 min Crime Thriller Drama

Overview

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.

Cast

Kenji Sawada

Makoto Kido

Bunta Sugawara

Inspector Yamashita

Kimiko Ikegami

Reiko Sawai

Kazuo Kitamura

Tanaka

Shigeru Kōyama

Nakayama

Kei Satō

Dr. Ichikawa

Yūnosuke Itō

Bus Hijacker

Eimei Esumi

Egawa

Yudai Ishiyama

Detective Ishikawa

Morio Kazama

Asai

Hōsei Komatsu

Loan Officer

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Suspect on TV News

Kōjirō Kusanagi

Technician of Phone Company

Yutaka Mizutani

Police Officer

Toshiyuki Nishida

Loan Collector

Saburō Shōji

Detective Mizushima

Kyôko Togawa

Student

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