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.
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
