Kido Makato (played by Sawada Kenji, a Japanese rock star) is a hip, long-haired, high school science teacher who loves chewing gum. Yamashita (Sugawara Bunta) is the buzz-cut sporting detective who loves chewing scenery. Makoto is caught up in a school-bus hijacking and rescued by Yamashita, but their haircuts predestine the two to be rivals. Makoto soon decides he wants to hold the world hostage by building an atomic bomb, going by the terrorist name Nine. He teams up with pretty but idiotic radio show host who calls herself Zero (Ikegami Kimiko) and the pair make increasingly odd demands, including trying to get the Rolling Stones to play in Tokyo. Yamashita won't stand for these sort of shenanigans in his city and he forms a one-man army to stop them. Co-written by director Hasegawa Kazuhiko and Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader's brother, the film rocks back and forth from political commentary to full blown action movie with jaw-dropping stunts, manly men who can't be hurt by explosions (or falls from insane heights), and blacker than black humor. A ballsy satire that descends into the unexpected, The Man Who Stole The Sun is a hard to see cult classic best experienced on the big screen.