Hayabusa (2011)
Original title: はやぶさ／HAYABUSA
Hayabusa is a 2011 Japanese-language adventure movie directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi, with a running time of 2h 20m. It stars Yuko Takeuchi, Toshiyuki Nishida and Masahiro Takashima.
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.
Cast
- Yuko 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
- Koji Yamamoto as Manabu Tajima
- Shizuka Fujimoto as Atsuko Daito
- Shinji Rokkaku as Sotaro Takaoka
- Tarō Suwa as Chairman Tanabe