Taiyô wo nusunda otoko

Oct 9 1980 Not Rated 2h 27m
Action, Crime, Thriller

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.

Plot

A misfit high-school science teacher decides to build his own atomic bomb. He steals isotopes from a nuclear reactor and manages to create two warheads, but at the same time is present at a botched school-bus hijacking and is publicly coronated as a hero. Nevertheless, he uses the bombs to extort the police, first by demanding that baseball games be shown without commercial interruptions and then by having the Rolling Stones play in Japan despite their drug bust. Soon it's a race to see what wins first: the determined cop who's after him, the bomb he's carrying, or a burgeoning case of radiation poisoning...

Written by

Leonard Schrader, Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Directed by

Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

Kitty Films

Languages

Awards

8 wins & 7 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
1,577
Average Rating
7.5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA