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

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