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.
as Motosada Tamura
as Mustafa / Murat
as Haru / Harumi
as Bekir
as Yuki
as Yutaka Nomura
as Kudo
as Mayor Sato
as Shintaro
as Tome
as Gentaro Fujimoto
as Kimura
as Shinichi
as Heiji
as Takeshita
as Sato
as Mankichi
as Âli Bey
as Katsu
as Osman Pasha
as Nobu
as Hatice
as Kiyo
as Michi Kimura
as Takeo
as Turgut Özal
as Yamamoto
as Mahmut
as Yano
as Naci
as Miyamoto
as Ali Efendi
as Fukushima
as Süleyman Bey
as Japanese Diplomat
as Turkish Airlines Staff
as Tae
as Mahmut's Wife
as Selim
as İhsan Pekel
as Biwa Artist in Kushimoto
as Veysel Atasoy
as Courtesan in Kushimoto
as Turkish Bureaucrat
as Courtesan in Kushimoto
as Turkish Airlines Staff
as Courtesan in Kushimoto
as Can
as Japanese National in Tehran
as Sarkis
as Japanese National in Tehran
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Japanese National in Tehran
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Naoki Agata
as Turkish Naval Officer
as Hiroyuki Kimura
as Turkish Naval Officer
as Village Elder
as Salih
as Village Elder
as Hayri
as Kushimoto Resident
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Kushimoto Resident
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Kushimoto Resident
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Village Child
as Mehmet Ali
as Mayor Sato's Aide
as Turkish Naval Officer
as Nobu's Husband
as Japanese Embassy Staff
as Kushimoto Resident
as Turkish Airlines Official
as Japanese National in Tehran
as Yoshimoto
as Kushimoto Resident
as Orhan Suyolcu
as Müge Sayar
as Hüseyin
as Kushimoto Resident
as Kushimoto Resident
as Courtesan in Kushimoto
as Kushimoto Resident
as Kushimoto Resident
as Kushimoto Resident
as Kushimoto Resident
as Kushimoto Resident
as Japanese National in Tehran
as Teacher in Tehran
as Abuzer
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Ertuğrul Crew Member
as Village Child
as Village Child
as Kushimoto Resident
as Kushimoto Resident
as Japanese Naval Officer
as Kushimoto Resident
as Kushimoto Resident
