Hayabusa: Harukanaru Kikan

Hayabusa: Harukanaru Kikan (はやぶさ 遥かなる帰還) is a 2012 Japanese drama film directed by Tokiyuki Takimoto[1] based on the story of the Hayabusa asteroid probe, which collected samples from the asteroid Itokawa in 2005 and returned them to Earth in 2010.

Hayabusa: Harukanaru Kikan
Directed byTokiyuki Takimoto
StarringKen Watanabe
Yōsuke Eguchi
Yui Natsukawa
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Tatsuya Fuji
Tsutomu Yamazaki
Release date
  • February 11, 2012 (2012-02-11) (Japan)
Running time
136 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Two other films made on the same subject were Hayabusa (2011) and Welcome Home, Hayabusa (2012). Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home emphasized the role of the people on the ground as they helped return the probe.[2]

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  1. ^ はやぶさ 遥かなる帰還 (2012). Allcinema.net (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  2. ^ "Review: Hayabusa – The Long Voyage Home". The Reel Bits. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2018.

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