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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home (2012)

Genre : Drama

Runtime : 2H 16M

Director : Tomoyuki Takimoto

Synopsis

In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an asteroid. Seven long years later, Hayabusa achieved its goal and was the first of any kind of craft launched from Earth to safely return samples of this kind to home base. The story was one of such great national pride for Japan, and in the wake of the tsunami and resulting tragedies in Japan it’s strong nationalistic message became the subject of no less than three rival films. Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s high-profile effort, simply titled Hayabusa (2011) starred the incomparable Toshiyuki Nishida. Most recently, Welcome Home, Hayabusa (2012) was released to Japanese audiences. Slipping in between those two was Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home, concentrating on the people on the ground who helped return the probe safely.

Actors

Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe
Junichiro Kawaguchi
Yosuke Eguchi
Yosuke Eguchi
Hitoshi Fujinaka
Yui Natsukawa
Yui Natsukawa
Mari Inoue
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Etsuya Kamata
Yuri Nakamura
Yuri Nakamura
Natsuko Matsumoto
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Yasuo Moriuchi
Renji Ishibashi
Renji Ishibashi
Haruo Kinoshita
Tatsuya Fuji
Tatsuya Fuji
Yasunobu Marukawa
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Hiroshi Higashide
Momoko Kato
Momoko Kato

Crews

Tomoyuki Takimoto
Tomoyuki Takimoto
Director
Kazuma Yamane
Kazuma Yamane
Book
Takuya Nishioka
Takuya Nishioka
Writer
Nobuyuki Tsujii
Nobuyuki Tsujii
Music
Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Director of Photography

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