31 reviews
History/Drama
2h 12m
2015
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...

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.
- DirectorMitsutoshi Tanaka
- Release5 December 2015
- Genre
- Duration2h 12m
- Budget$15,000,000
- Revenue$8,596,000
- Rate31 reviews
- Productions
Toei Company, Creators' Union, Böcek Yapım, Kinoshita Group, Toei Studios Kyoto, Toei Tokyo, Toei Video Company, dentsu, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, PIA Corporation, Innovation Design, Yomiuri Shimbun Company, Noritsu Koki, Mainichi Shimbun, BS Fuji, MX Entertainment, The Kitanippon Shimbun
Cast

Seiyo Uchino
Motosada Tamura

Kenan Ece
Mustafa / Murat

Shioli Kutsuna
Haru / Harumi

Alican Yücesoy
Bekir

Yui Natsukawa
Yuki

Toshiyuki Nagashima
Yutaka Nomura

Naoto Takenaka
Kudo

Takashi Sasano
Mayor Sato

Shunsuke Daitoh
Shintaro

Ayako Kobayashi
Tome

Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Gentaro Fujimoto

Takayuki Takuma
Kimura

Gota Watabe
Shinichi

Yuu Tokui
Heiji

Yukijiro Hotaru
Takeshita

Rino Katase
Sato

Naoki Kawano
Mankichi

Mehmet Özgür
Âli Bey

Hitomi Miwa
Katsu

Uğur Polat
Osman Pasha

Tomoko Saitō
Nobu

Melis Babadağ
Hatice

Nobue Iketani
Kiyo

Ayumi Takano
Michi Kimura

Minosuke
Takeo

Deniz Oral
Turgut Özal

Noboru Kaneko
Yamamoto

Hakkı Haluk Cömert
Mahmut

Yuuki Tsujimoto
Yano

Cem Cücenoğlu
Naci

Toshie Takada
Miyamoto

Mert Aygün
Ali Efendi

Koichi Ueda
Fukushima

Tamer Levent
Süleyman Bey

Kenichirou Yasui
Japanese Diplomat

Duygu Sarişin
Turkish Airlines Staff

Minami Kajihara
Tae

Pınar Alçınkaya
Mahmut's Wife

Halit Mızraklı
Selim

Alper Düzen
İhsan Pekel

Sato Higashi
Biwa Artist in Kushimoto

Ayhan Işık
Veysel Atasoy

Chiyo Takahashi
Courtesan in Kushimoto

Oğuz Okul
Turkish Bureaucrat

Akane Owaki
Courtesan in Kushimoto

Can Şentürk
Turkish Airlines Staff

Ayami Nakamura
Courtesan in Kushimoto

Eray Ayaz
Can

Momoko Kato
Japanese National in Tehran

Erkan Pekbay
Sarkis

Natsuka Ogawa
Japanese National in Tehran

Savaş Satış
Ertuğrul Crew Member

Mika Kitajima
Japanese National in Tehran

Ali Açıkbaş
Ertuğrul Crew Member

Shingo Koike
Naoki Agata

Sedat Ali Erdinç
Turkish Naval Officer

Ruka Wakabayashi
Hiroyuki Kimura

Bertan Dirikolu
Turkish Naval Officer

Takashi Noguchi
Village Elder

Yağız Elmastaşoğlu
Salih

Ryuji Komine
Village Elder

Oğuz Öztekin
Hayri

Munenori Nagano
Kushimoto Resident

Onur Sarıaltın
Ertuğrul Crew Member

Chikara Honda
Kushimoto Resident

Aras Kösedağ
Ertuğrul Crew Member

Marie Kobayashi
Kushimoto Resident

Egemen Beşer
Ertuğrul Crew Member

Kinari Tsujimoto
Village Child

Görkem Mertsöz
Mehmet Ali

Kenzo Ryu
Mayor Sato's Aide

Sabri Memi
Turkish Naval Officer

Man Kato
Nobu's Husband

Masataka Kobayashi
Japanese Embassy Staff

Emiko Miyazaki
Kushimoto Resident

Murat Serezli
Turkish Airlines Official

Tsuto Kawai
Japanese National in Tehran

Yuusaku Tanaka
Yoshimoto

Shunchou Katsura
Kushimoto Resident

Serdar Yeğin
Orhan Suyolcu

Yeliz Çelebi
Müge Sayar

Can Akalın
Hüseyin

Kaori Takeda
Kushimoto Resident

Yukari Okumura
Kushimoto Resident

Tina Kusumoto
Courtesan in Kushimoto

Mieko Hoshino
Kushimoto Resident

Kozue Ueda
Kushimoto Resident

Katsuyuki Tai
Kushimoto Resident

Akihiro Kawatsuru
Kushimoto Resident

Hitoshi Nonomura
Kushimoto Resident

Hiroshi Urano
Japanese National in Tehran

Kota Fuji
Teacher in Tehran

Ahmet İlker Okumuş
Abuzer

Bahtiyar Memili
Ertuğrul Crew Member

Hakan Atalay
Ertuğrul Crew Member

İsmet Kapısız
Ertuğrul Crew Member

Caner Arıkan
Ertuğrul Crew Member

İlker Alemdar
Ertuğrul Crew Member

Mehmet Bezgin
Ertuğrul Crew Member

Ali Hikmet Kürekçi
Ertuğrul Crew Member

Mehmet Pala
Ertuğrul Crew Member

Suzuto Mukai
Village Child

Tamaki Kato
Village Child

Nana Moriwaki
Kushimoto Resident

Kentarou Hayashi
Kushimoto Resident

Koichi Koshinaka
Japanese Naval Officer

Masayuki Ota
Kushimoto Resident

Shinobu Sakurai
Kushimoto Resident
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