The Daylight Robber

Kazuhiko Hasegawa
Kenji Sawada, Bunta Sugawara, Kimiko Ikegami, Kazuo Kitamura, Shigeru Kamiyama, Kei Sato, Yunosuke Ito, Akira Shioji, Toshiro Kamiyama, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yutaka Mizutani, Masamitsu Komatsu, Taiga Mori, Hideaki Esaki
1979
Japan
Completed
Japanese
147 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known as太陽を盗んだ男,is aJapanProducerwomen sex,At1979Released in year
。The dialogue language isJapanese,Current Douban rating8.3(For reference only)。
A science teacher named Makoto Kido (played by Kenji Sawada) at a certain high school appears to live a leisurely life, but deep inside, he harbors intense misanthropy and antisocial tendencies. He teaches diligently during the day and conducts a shocking research project at his apartment at night. In fact, he is secretly manufacturing a small atomic bomb, and to achieve this, he mercilessly attacks the local police to seize their guns and even breaks into a nuclear research facility near Tokai Village in Ibaraki Prefecture to steal essential materials like plutonium and cerium needed for bomb production. Soon, his project reaches completion, and Kido threatens to blow up the National Diet Building, coercing the government to act according to his demands. A police officer, Manzo Yamashita (played by Bunta Sugawara), who has crossed paths with Kido before, gets entangled with this mad daylight robber in a series of confrontations...
This film won the 2nd place in the Film Daily's Top Ten Films of 1979 and was ranked 7th in the Film Daily's selection of 200 Japanese Film Heritage in 2009.