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The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979) on Netflix

NR19792h 27mActionCrimeThriller

Makoto Kido teaches science at a high school where students mock him. He is building an atomic bomb and plotting to steal plutonium. A hijacker seizes his students' bus.

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At the high school where he teaches science and chemistry, Makoto Kido is the target of his students' jokes. Away from the classroom, he is putting together an atomic bomb inside his own apartment, and he intends to take the plutonium for it from the Tōkai Nuclear Power Plant. During a school field trip, a hijacker seizes one of the buses carrying Kido and his students. Kido and the police detective Yamashita together overcome the man, and Kido is hailed in public as a hero. He also grows close to a radio personality nicknamed Zero, whose name is Reiko Sawai.

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