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Takeuchi Yuko to make Hollywood debut with the film, “HAYABUSA”

by on April 29, 2011 at 8:50 am
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The main cast of "HAYABUSA": Nishida Toshiyuki (left) and Takeuchi Yuko (right)

It was announced today that actress Takeuchi Yuko will be starring in the upcoming film “HAYABUSA“, produced by the Hollywood movie studio, 20th Century Fox.

The film is based on the true story of the Japanese unmanned spacecraft “Hayabusa”, which returned to Earth last June after 7 years in space. The challenges and struggles of the project will be told in conjunction with the story of Takeuchi’s character, a research staff working at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Veteran actor Nishida Toshiyuki joins her in the film as her boss.

Takeuchi told the press, “Just as the return of ‘Hayabusa’ after 7 years moved many people, I would be happy if this (film) can become the dream and hope of Japan. ”

Nishida added, “There is a widespread negative image about Japan (right now) because of the earthquake and nuclear problems, so I want people to remember through this film that Japan has world leading scientific technology… I want Japan to recall last year’s touching emotions and gain back (our) honor and pride.”

“Hayabusa” will be directed by Tsutsumi Yukihiko, whose past works include “BECK” and “20th Century Boys“. Filming will start in May, with the expected release date on October 1st.

Source: Mantan Web

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  • nss7

    “There is a widespread negative image about Japan (right now) because of the earthquake and nuclear problems”

    No, i dont think so. Japan had taught the world how to remain calm during major disaster. Whole world impressed by their resilience when facing hardship.

  • jojolala

    ganbatte ! :’)

  • Guest

    There is one problem with it. Hayabusa was an extremely unspectacular mission. From a scientific and engineering point of view it was brilliant. They landed on an asteroid and brought material back! Flipping epic! But nothing happened that would make most people go “oooooooh!”, except nerds like me.

    See, Apollo 13 makes good movie material, because people were in danger and brilliant minds worked their butts off. NASA brought these three guys back from the lunar orbit essentially with duct tape and wire. Great movie material. A heroic adventure in space! A tribute to the “steely-eyed missile men” of NASA.

    Hayabusa was essentially an unmanned probe in space. It doesn’t really give anything. Challenges and struggles don’t really sell well when nobody is in danger. They had some issues with the remote control of the probe, but there’s nothing heroic about that. Personally I’m really not expecting anything else than a cheesy romance with some pseudo-scientific background. Because simply… there is nothing for a different plot.

    “Houston we have a problem!” or “We’re venting something into space. Must be the oxygen.” vs “Let’s take a picture of that asteroid.” or “Oh look, the remote is out, push reset button”.

    How many people care about asteroids 4660 Nereus and 25143 Itokawa? Heck, how many people have ever heard of them? We’re at a point where even shuttle or soyuz launches are pretty much ignored by a vast majority. Are there even live broadcasts of the shuttle launches anymore? The last I saw were all online via the NASA website.

    Seeing Yuko as a nerd, again? Hell yeah. Hayabusa is great nerd material. But it’s no movie material. I’m sorry to say, I’m expecting this to bomb.

    That said… Endeavour is being prepped for launch. Tanking with more than 500,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen was completed at 9:24a ET. Right now she’s go for launch and we’re at under T minus 5 hours. Final mission for Endeavour.

  • Mochi-chan

    ..How the hell does Japan have a bad image cuz of a natural disaster? if anything everyone was impressed that japanese wasn’t running around, looting, panicking, and shooting each others like they would in the Western World =___=’

  • imoyaki

    wow wow! cant wait!