Hayabusa

Hayabusa

140 mins | Drama, Adventure | Oct. 1, 2011

May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.

Hayabusa

140 mins | Drama, Adventure | Oct. 1, 2011

Hayabusa
May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers 20th Century Fox, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing, Dentsu, Sony Music Entertainmant, Mainichi Shinbunsha, Fox International Productions, Office Crescendo, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Japan, Agung
Original title はやぶさ／HAYABUSA
Directors Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Writers Hiroshi Shirasaki, Kiyoshi Inoue, Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast

Yûko Takeuchi

as Megumi Mizusawa

Toshiyuki Nishida

as Yasuhiro Matoba

Masahiro Takashima

as Kenichi Sakagami

Katsuhisa Namase

as enthusiastic fan of Hayabusa

Shiro Sano

as Kawabuchi

Shingo Tsurumi

as Osamu KIta

Kōji Yamamoto

as Manabu Tajima

Shizuka Fujimoto

as Atsuko Daito

Shinji Rokkaku

as Sotaro Takaoka

Taro Suwa

as Chairman Tanabe