I love Japan’s 1970s and 1980s culture as a whole. Among all the cultural figures in the era, Juie (Kenji Sawada) means special for me as a fashion icon. Though his flashy stage costume and full face of makeup were more famous back then, he also looks gorgeous in modest clothes in movies and TV dramas made around that time. The Man Who Stole the Sun is a movie that brings out his dressed-down coolness the best, I think. Let me pick up a scene in which he is chased by a police car on the Metropolitan Expressway in Tokyo as an example. He wears a navy Harrington jacket layered over a white dress shirt, slightly flared slim pants and mid-top boots while driving his Mazda RX-7. Looking carefully, you may realize that his costume is always carefully selected despite the simple appearance. Regarding the movie, the nonsense story of a man who builds an atomic bomb at home with plutonium isotopes he stole from a nuclear power plant and the unauthorized shooting in front of the Imperial Palace and the parliament building tend to be more talked about, but Julie’s maniac, seductive way of acting is so epic, too, that young actors nowadays are never be able to perform similarly.