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.

• Toru HasebeOriginal Music Composer
• Eishi SegawaOriginal Music Composer
• Kiyoshi InoueScreenplay
• Hiroshi ShirasakiScreenplay
• Yukihiko TsutsumiDirector
• Yukihiko TsutsumiWriter
• Masaru YokoyamaOriginal Music Composer

• Yuko TakeuchiMegumi Mizusawa
• Toshiyuki NishidaYasuhiro Matoba
• Masahiro TakashimaKenichi Sakagami
• Katsuhisa Namaseenthusiastic fan of Hayabusa
• Shiro SanoKawabuchi
• Shingo TsurumiOsamu KIta
• Koji YamamotoManabu Tajima
• Shizuka FujimotoAtsuko Daito
• Shinji RokkakuSotaro Takaoka
• Tarō SuwaChairman Tanabe