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

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