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

Your rating