Bye Bye Jupiter (1984) on Netflix
With Earth's colonies facing an energy crisis, Chief Engineer Eiji Honda leads a project to turn Jupiter into a star. Carvings found on Mars suggest aliens visited the solar system.
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Plot summary
In the year 2125, Earth holds 18 billion people and settlements spread across the Solar System. Work to melt the Martian poles uncovers vast ground designs like those at Nazca. Millicent Willem, a space linguist on the Mars project, travels to Minerva Base, which orbits Jupiter, to see Chief Engineer Eiji Honda, who runs the Jupiter Solarization project. She argues that visitors came 100,000 years ago and left carvings on Earth, the Moon and Mars, and that their messages hint at a key inside Jupiter's Great Red Spot. She asks for his help on a research trip. When Honda shows a delegation from Earth how Jupiter would be turned into a star to supply power to the colonies, Jupiter Church protesters interrupt the tour, and Honda recognizes Maria, a former lover, among them.
Cast
- Diane Dangelyas Maria Basehart
- Rachel Huggettas Dr. Millicent Wilem (as Rachael Huggert)
- Paul Tagawaas Peter
- Marc Pantheras Carlos
- William Tapier
- Nobushi Takeuchi
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bye Bye Jupiter (1984)
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- Original director Shiro Moritani, who had previously worked on the Komatsu project Japan Sinks, died in December 1984. He was replaced on Bye-Bye Jupiter by assistant director Koji Hashimoto.
- Bye-Bye Jupiter holds a technical first for Japanese cinema: it was the first Japanese film ever to use computer-generated imagery for its visual effects.
- Akihiko Hirata made his final film appearance in Bye-Bye Jupiter. The 1984 film was the last screen role of the actor's career.
- Sakyo Komatsu novelized an early draft of Bye-Bye Jupiter's story two years before the film was released, as Sayonara Jupiter. That novelization won the 1983 Seiun Award.
