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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home (2012)
Directed by Tomoyuki Takimoto
Drama · 2h 16m
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.
Cast
Ken Watanabe
Junichiro Kawaguchi
Yosuke Eguchi
Hitoshi Fujinaka
Yui Natsukawa
Mari Inoue
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Etsuya Kamata
Yuri Nakamura
松本夏子（Natsuko Matsumoto）
Hidetaka Yoshioka
Yasuo Moriuchi
Renji Ishibashi
Haruo Kinoshita
Tatsuya Fuji
Yasunobu Marukawa
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Hiroshi Higashide
Momoko Kato
Crew
- Director
- Tomoyuki Takimoto
- Screenplay
- Takuya Nishioka
- Director of Photography
- Yoshitaka Sakamoto
- Original Music Composer
- Nobuyuki Tsujii
- Editor
- Nobuyuki Takahashi
- Producer
- Atsuo Kikuchi, Tsutomu Nagasaka, Wataru Takano
Details
- Original title
- はやぶさ 遥かなる帰還
- Release date
- 2012-02-11
- Runtime
- 2h 16m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Sumitomo Corporation, Toei Company, TV Asahi, Kinoshita Group, Asmik Ace, Toei Animation, Toei Video Company, T. Y. Limited, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Nagoya Broadcasting Network, The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo FM, WOWOW, Hokkaido Television Broadcasting, Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting, Toei Tokyo