• StatusReleased
  • Release Date2015-12-05
  • Runtime132 minutes
  • TaglineA Story of Friendship and Compassion
  • Revenue8,596,000$
  • GenreHistory, Drama
  • Production
    CompaniesToei 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
  • Budget15,000,000$

Movie Overview

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.

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Seiyo Uchino

Kenan Ece

Shioli Kutsuna

Alican Yücesoy

Yui Natsukawa

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Naoto Takenaka

Takashi Sasano

Shunsuke Daitoh

Ayako Kobayashi

Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Takayuki Takuma

Gota Watabe

Yuu Tokui

Yukijiro Hotaru

Rino Katase

Naoki Kawano

Mehmet Özgür

Hitomi Miwa

Uğur Polat

Tomoko Saitō

Melis Babadağ

Nobue Iketani

Ayumi Takano

Minosuke

Deniz Oral

Noboru Kaneko

Hakkı Haluk Cömert

Yuuki Tsujimoto

Cem Cücenoğlu

Toshie Takada

Mert Aygün

Koichi Ueda

Tamer Levent

Kenichirou Yasui

Duygu Sarişin

Minami Kajihara

Pınar Alçınkaya

Halit Mızraklı

Alper Düzen

Sato Higashi

Ayhan Işık

Chiyo Takahashi

Oğuz Okul

Akane Owaki

Can Şentürk

Ayami Nakamura

Eray Ayaz

Momoko Kato

Erkan Pekbay