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

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