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
Shioli Kutsuna
Haru / Harumi
Rino Katase
Sato
Yui Natsukawa
Yuki
Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Gentaro Fujimoto
Hitomi Miwa
Katsu
Ayako Kobayashi
Tome
Yukijiro Hotaru
Takeshita
Yuu Tokui
Heiji
Naoto Takenaka
Kudo
Seiyo Uchino
Motosada Tamura
Toshiyuki Nagashima
Yutaka Nomura
Munenori Nagano
Kushimoto Resident
Mika Kitajima
Japanese National in Tehran
Yuuki Tsujimoto
Yano
Shunsuke Daitoh
Shintaro
Alican Yücesoy
Bekir
Takashi Sasano
Mayor Sato
Mehmet Özgür
Âli Bey
Minosuke
Takeo
Duygu Sarişin
Turkish Airlines Staff
Gota Watabe
Shinichi
Noboru Kaneko
Yamamoto
Naoki Kawano
Mankichi
Momoko Kato
Japanese National in Tehran
Serdar Yeğin
Orhan Suyolcu
Uğur Polat
Osman Pasha
Bahtiyar Memili
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Chikara Honda
Kushimoto Resident
Takayuki Takuma
Kimura
Koichi Ueda
Fukushima
Takashi Noguchi
Village Elder
Tomoko Saitō
Nobu
Sato Higashi
Biwa Artist in Kushimoto
Nobue Iketani
Kiyo
Katsuyuki Tai
Kushimoto Resident
Ryuji Komine
Village Elder
Toshie Takada
Miyamoto
Kenan Ece
Mustafa / Murat
Tamer Levent
Süleyman Bey
Savaş Satış
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Mieko Hoshino
Kushimoto Resident
Man Kato
Nobu's Husband
Melis Babadağ
Hatice
Hakan Atalay
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Ayumi Takano
Michi Kimura
Kubat
Murat Serezli
Turkish Airlines Official
Tsuto Kawai
Japanese National in Tehran
Görkem Mertsöz
Mehmet Ali
Cem Cücenoğlu
Naci
Ayami Nakamura
Courtesan in Kushimoto
Oğuz Okul
Turkish Bureaucrat
Tina Kusumoto
Courtesan in Kushimoto
Hakkı Haluk Cömert
Mahmut
Deniz Oral
Turgut Özal
Hitoshi Nonomura
Kushimoto Resident
Caner Arıkan
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Alper Düzen
İhsan Pekel
Mert Aygün
Ali Efendi
Kenzo Ryu
Mayor Sato's Aide
Kota Fuji
Teacher in Tehran
Ali Hikmet Kürekçi
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Natsuka Ogawa
Japanese National in Tehran
Erkan Pekbay
Sarkis
Ayhan Işık
Veysel Atasoy
Kenichirou Yasui
Japanese Diplomat
Ruka Wakabayashi
Hiroyuki Kimura
Pınar Alçınkaya
Mahmut's Wife
Eray Ayaz
Can
Minami Kajihara
Tae
Kozue Ueda
Kushimoto Resident
Ahmet İlker Okumuş
Abuzer
Akihiro Kawatsuru
Kushimoto Resident
Bertan Dirikolu
Turkish Naval Officer
Shingo Koike
Naoki Agata
Tamaki Kato
Village Child
Chiyo Takahashi
Courtesan in Kushimoto
Sabri Memi
Turkish Naval Officer
İlker Alemdar
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Aras Kösedağ
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Nana Moriwaki
Kushimoto Resident
Yuusaku Tanaka
Yoshimoto
Hiroshi Urano
Japanese National in Tehran
Onur Sarıaltın
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Mehmet Pala
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Akane Owaki
Courtesan in Kushimoto
Sedat Ali Erdinç
Turkish Naval Officer
Halit Mızraklı
Selim
Oğuz Öztekin
Hayri
Ali Açıkbaş
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Suzuto Mukai
Village Child
Can Şentürk
Turkish Airlines Staff
Kaori Takeda
Kushimoto Resident
Marie Kobayashi
Kushimoto Resident
Masataka Kobayashi
Japanese Embassy Staff
Shunchou Katsura
Kushimoto Resident
Kentarou Hayashi
Kushimoto Resident
Can Akalın
Hüseyin
İsmet Kapısız
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Yağız Elmastaşoğlu
Salih
Egemen Beşer
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Emiko Miyazaki
Kushimoto Resident
Yeliz Çelebi
Müge Sayar
Mehmet Bezgin
Ertuğrul Crew Member
Koichi Koshinaka
Japanese Naval Officer
Yukari Okumura
Kushimoto Resident
Masayuki Ota
Kushimoto Resident
Shinobu Sakurai
Kushimoto Resident
Kinari Tsujimoto
Village Child

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