History Drama
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.
Directed by
Mitsutoshi Tanaka
Naoto Takenaka
Kudo
Ayako Kobayashi
Tome
Shioli Kutsuna
Haru / Harumi
Takashi Sasano
Mayor Sato
Yukijiro Hotaru
Takeshita
Yuu Tokui
Heiji
Koichi Ueda
Fukushima
Yui Natsukawa
Yuki
Seiyo Uchino
Motosada Tamura
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Gentaro Fujimoto
Shunsuke Daitoh
Shintaro
Toshiyuki Nagashima
Yutaka Nomura
Rino Katase
Sato
Hitomi Miwa
Katsu
Chikara Honda
Kushimoto Resident
Nobue Iketani
Kiyo
Noboru Kaneko
Yamamoto
Takashi Noguchi
Village Elder
Gota Watabe
Shinichi
Naoki Kawano
Mankichi
Alican Yücesoy
Bekir
Takayuki Takuma
Kimura
Kenan Ece
Mustafa / Murat
Mehmet Özgür
Âli Bey
Munenori Nagano
Kushimoto Resident
Uğur Polat
Osman Pasha
Tamer Levent
Süleyman Bey
Toshie Takada
Miyamoto
Minosuke
Takeo
Yuuki Tsujimoto
Yano
Man Kato
Nobu's Husband
Serdar Yeğin
Orhan Suyolcu
Murat Serezli
Turkish Airlines Official
Duygu Sarişin
Turkish Airlines Staff
Ayami Nakamura
Courtesan in Kushimoto
Tomoko Saitō
Nobu
Momoko Kato
Japanese National in Tehran
Bahtiyar Memili
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Kenzo Ryu
Mayor Sato's Aide
Minami Kajihara
Tae
Ryuji Komine
Village Elder
Mieko Hoshino
Kushimoto Resident
Ayumi Takano
Michi Kimura
Hakan Atalay
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Hitoshi Nonomura
Kushimoto Resident
Tina Kusumoto
Courtesan in Kushimoto
Katsuyuki Tai
Kushimoto Resident
Ruka Wakabayashi
Hiroyuki Kimura
Melis Babadağ
Hatice
Deniz Oral
Turgut Özal
Savaş Satış
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Cem Cücenoğlu
Naci
Oğuz Okul
Turkish Bureaucrat
Mika Kitajima
Japanese National in Tehran
Alper Düzen
İhsan Pekel
Shingo Koike
Naoki Agata
Akihiro Kawatsuru
Kushimoto Resident
Mert Aygün
Ali Efendi
Sato Higashi
Biwa Artist in Kushimoto
Mehmet Pala
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Natsuka Ogawa
Japanese National in Tehran
Chiyo Takahashi
Courtesan in Kushimoto
Kubat
Hakkı Haluk Cömert
Mahmut
Tsuto Kawai
Japanese National in Tehran
Ahmet İlker Okumuş
Abuzer
Kenichirou Yasui
Japanese Diplomat
Görkem Mertsöz
Mehmet Ali
Bertan Dirikolu
Turkish Naval Officer
Ali Hikmet Kürekçi
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Kozue Ueda
Kushimoto Resident
Can Akalın
Hüseyin
Marie Kobayashi
Kushimoto Resident
Mehmet Bezgin
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Pınar Alçınkaya
Mahmut's Wife
Caner Arıkan
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Yukari Okumura
Kushimoto Resident
Koichi Koshinaka
Japanese Naval Officer
Ayhan Işık
Veysel Atasoy
Yuusaku Tanaka
Yoshimoto
Hiroshi Urano
Japanese National in Tehran
Sabri Memi
Turkish Naval Officer
Masataka Kobayashi
Japanese Embassy Staff
Kinari Tsujimoto
Village Child
Suzuto Mukai
Village Child
Masayuki Ota
Kushimoto Resident
Sedat Ali Erdinç
Turkish Naval Officer
Halit Mızraklı
Selim
Aras Kösedağ
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Yağız Elmastaşoğlu
Salih
Akane Owaki
Courtesan in Kushimoto
İlker Alemdar
Ertuğrul Crew Member
İsmet Kapısız
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Yeliz Çelebi
Müge Sayar
Tamaki Kato
Village Child
Can Şentürk
Turkish Airlines Staff
Emiko Miyazaki
Kushimoto Resident
Shunchou Katsura
Kushimoto Resident
Ali Açıkbaş
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Erkan Pekbay
Sarkis
Shinobu Sakurai
Kushimoto Resident
Kentarou Hayashi
Kushimoto Resident
Kaori Takeda
Kushimoto Resident
Onur Sarıaltın
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Kota Fuji
Teacher in Tehran
Eray Ayaz
Can
Nana Moriwaki
Kushimoto Resident
Egemen Beşer
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Oğuz Öztekin
Hayri

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