Hayabusa backdrop

Hayabusa 2011 Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi はやぶさ/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.

Cast
Yuko Takeuchi Megumi Mizusawa
Toshiyuki Nishida Yasuhiro Matoba
Masahiro Takashima Kenichi Sakagami
Katsuhisa Namase enthusiastic fan of Hayabusa
Shiro Sano Kawabuchi
Shingo Tsurumi Osamu KIta
Koji Yamamoto Manabu Tajima
Shizuka Fujimoto Atsuko Daito
Shinji Rokkaku Sotaro Takaoka
Tarō Suwa Chairman Tanabe