06 October 1979 Action, Thriller, Crime 147 mins
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.
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Kenji Sawada as Makoto Kido
Bunta Sugawara as Inspector Yamashita
Kimiko Ikegami as Reiko Sawai
Kazuo Kitamura as Tanaka
Shigeru Kōyama as Nakayama
Kei Satō as Dr. Ichikawa
Yūnosuke Itō as Bus Hijacker
Eimei Esumi as Egawa
Hiroshi Gojo as Identikit Officer
Yudai Ishiyama as Detective Ishikawa
Rika Kayama as Student
Morio Kazama as Asai
Hōsei Komatsu as Loan Officer
Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Suspect on TV News
Kōjirō Kusanagi as Technician of Phone Company
Yutaka Mizutani as Police Officer
Kazuhiko Hasegawa Director
Leonard Schrader Screenplay
Leonard Schrader Story
Kei Ijichi Producer
Takayuki Inoue Original Music Composer
Akira Suzuki Editor
Yoshinaga Yoko'o Production Design
Kazuhiko Hasegawa Writer
Shinji Sōmai Assistant Director
Tatsuo Suzuki Director of Photography
Kiyoshi Kurosawa Assistant Director
Hideo Kumagai Lighting Technician
Kenichi Benitani Sound Recordist
Mataichirô Yamamoto Producer
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Japan 06 October 1979
United States 09 October 1980
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