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

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