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Hayabusa

2011

140 minutes

AdventureDrama

Overview

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.

Top Cast

Yuko Takeuchi headshot

Yuko Takeuchi

Megumi Mizusawa

Toshiyuki Nishida headshot

Toshiyuki Nishida

Yasuhiro Matoba

Masahiro Takashima headshot

Masahiro Takashima

Kenichi Sakagami

Katsuhisa Namase headshot

Katsuhisa Namase

enthusiastic fan of Hayabusa

Shiro Sano headshot

Shiro Sano

Kawabuchi

Shingo Tsurumi headshot

Shingo Tsurumi

Osamu KIta

Koji Yamamoto headshot

Koji Yamamoto

Manabu Tajima

Shizuka Fujimoto headshot

Shizuka Fujimoto

Atsuko Daito

Shinji Rokkaku headshot

Shinji Rokkaku

Sotaro Takaoka

Tarō Suwa headshot

Tarō Suwa

Chairman Tanabe