The Man Who Stole the Sun

International Title

Japanese Title

太陽を盗んだ男
[Taiyo wo Nusunda Otoko]

Production: Kitty Films
Distributor: Toho	Japan: 1979
	Time: 147 minutes

Initial US Title

US Distributor: -	Time: -
Alternate Movie Titles:
The Man Who Stole the Sun [Literal Translation]
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Details

Makoto Kido is an antisocial, somewhat misanthropic schoolteacher who is seen as a lazy and boring slouch by his students. After he is involved in a hostage situation with his students and meets police chief Yamashita, he goes home and watches a Tokyo Giants game which is interrupted in the third quarter. Snapping, this makes him build a nuclear bomb to detonate in Tokyo Bay. The teacher them phones in the bomb threat to Yamashita, who has no idea who the culprit is but is ruthless enough to do anything to find out.

Staff
Directed by Kazuhiko Hasegawa Writing credits Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Leonard Schrader Produced by Mataichiro Yamamoto, Kei Ijichi Music by Takayuki Inoue Cinematography by Tatsuo Suzuki Film Editing by Akira Suzuki Production Design by Yoshinaga Yoko Assistant Director Shinji Somai, Koji Enokido, Takeo Moriyasu, Yoshiro Takahashi, Hironari Yano
Cast
Inspector Yamashita Bunta Sugawara Makoto Kido Kenji Sawada Zero Sawai Kimiko Ikegami Tanaka, National Police Agency Director Kazuo Kitamura Nakayama Shigeru Koyama Ichikawa, Doctor Kei Sato Bus Hijacker Yunosuke Ito Ishikawa, Detective Yudai Ishiyama Mizushima, Detective Saburo Shoji Asai Morio Kazama Loan Officer Hosei Komatsu Loan Collector Toshiyuki Nishida Identikit Officer Hiroshi Gojo Egawa Eimei Esumi Phone Company Technician Kojiro Kusanagi Students Rika Kayama, Kyoko Togawa, Michiyo Yamazoe Police Officer Yutaka Mizutani Apartment Manager Chiaki Takayama Suspect on TV Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Midori Mori - Tatsuya Mori - Yoji Mori - Satoru Nabe - Masaharu Nagai - Masao Ueda - Tatsuya Hamaguchi - Hajime Hoshi - Toshizo Kudo - Eigo Taniguchi - Daisuke Odera - Takayuki Ohira - Tomokazu Sakamoto - Ryoichi Sato - Nanako Takahashi - Isao Takanami - Joji Sawada - Yuji Shikamata - Kazuhiro Iwamoto - Junichi Hosokawa - Akinobu Imamura - Yasuyoshi Masuda - Ken Mizoguchi - Yukiko Inoue
Monster Appearances	Aliens, SDF, Misc
None	N/A

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DVDs and Blu-Ray

Region 2 The Man Who Stole the Sun Showgate (2006)

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