Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home (2012)
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.
Director:
Tomoyuki Takimoto
Writer:
Takuya Nishioka
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Ken Watanabe as Junichiro Kawaguchi |
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Yosuke Eguchi as Hitoshi Fujinaka |
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Yui Natsukawa as Mari Inoue |
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Yukiyoshi Ozawa as Etsuya Kamata |
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Yuri Nakamura as 松本夏子（Natsuko Matsumoto） |
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Hidetaka Yoshioka as Yasuo Moriuchi |
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Renji Ishibashi as Haruo Kinoshita |
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Tatsuya Fuji as Yasunobu Marukawa |
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Tsutomu Yamazaki as Hiroshi Higashide |
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Momoko Kato as |
| Directing | Tomoyuki Takimoto | Director |
| Sound | Nobuyuki Tsujii | Music |
| Writing | Kazuma Yamane | Book |
| Camera | Yoshitaka Sakamoto | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Nobuyuki Takahashi | Editor |
| Production | Ryosuke Kijiya | Line Producer |
| Visual Effects | Zac Campbell | Digital Compositor |
| Production | Yasuhiro Fukuoka | Casting Producer |
| Production | Takashi Hirajo | Executive Producer |
| Production | Tatsumi Yoda | Executive Producer |
| Production | Naoya Kinoshita | Executive Producer |
| Production | Hidenobu Muramatsu | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Kiyoshi Kuwata | Co-Executive Producer |
| Production | Atsuo Kikuchi | Producer |
| Production | Tsutomu Nagasaka | Producer |
| Production | Wataru Takano | Producer |
| Writing | Takuya Nishioka | Screenplay |
| Art | Takaichi Wakamatsu | Art Direction |
| Sound | Kenji Shibasaki | Sound Effects |
| Sound | Nobuyuki Tsujii | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Genichi Tsushima | Music Producer |
| Visual Effects | Koichi Noguchi | VFX Supervisor |
| Lighting | Takeshi Okubo | Gaffer |
| Sound | Yasuo Takano | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Tsuyoshi Murozono | Sound Mixer |
| Crew | Yukiko Nagasaka | Script |
| Production | Osamu Shiraishi | Production Manager |
| Directing | Hajime Gonno | Assistant Director |
| Production | Ken Watanabe | Production Manager |
