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.
Length 132 minutes
Masaaki Uchino | Kenan Ece | Shiori Kutsuna | Alican Yücesoy | Yui Natsukawa | Toshiyuki Nagashima | Naoto Takenaka | Takashi Sasano | Shunsuke Daitô | Ayako Kobayashi | Yukiyoshi Ozawa | Takayuki Takuma | Gota Watabe | Yu Tokui | Yukijiro Hotaru | Rino Katase | Naoki Kawano | Mehmet Özgür | Hitomi Miwa | Uğur Polat | Tomoko Saitô | Melis Babadağ | Nobue Iketani | Ayumi Takano | Minosuke | Deniz Oral | Noboru Kaneko | Hakkı Haluk Cömert | Yuuki Tsujimoto | Cem Cücenoğlu | Toshie Takada | Mert Aygün | Kôichi 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 | Natsuka Ogawa | Savaş Satış | Mika Kitajima | Ali Açıkbaş | Shingo Koike | Sedat Ali Erdinç | Ruka Wakabayashi | Bertan Dirikolu | Takashi Noguchi | Yağız Elmastaşoğlu | Ryuji Komine | Oğuz Öztekin | Munenori Nagano | Onur Sarıaltın | Riki Honda | Aras Kösedağ | Marie Kobayashi | Egemen Beşer | Kinari Tsujimoto | Gorkem Mertsoz | Kenzou Ryu | Sabri Memi | Man Kato | Masataka Kobayashi | Emiko Miyazaki | Murat Serezli | Tsuto Kawai | Yuusaku Tanaka | Shunchou Katsura | Serdar Yeğin | Yeliz Çelebi | Can Akalın | Kaori Takeda | Yukari Okumura | China Kusumoto | Mieko Hoshino | Kozue Ueda | Katsuyuki Tai | Akihiro Kawatsuru | Hitoshi Nonomura | Hiroshi Urano | Kota Fuji | Ahmet İlker Okumuş | Bahtiyar Memili | Hakan Atalay | İsmet Kapısız | Caner Arıkan | İlker Alemdar | Mehmet Bezgin | Ali Hikmet Kürekçi | Mehmet Pala | Suzuto Mukai | Tamaki Kato | Nana Moriwaki | Kentarou Hayashi | Koichi Koshinaka | Masayuki Ota | Shinobu Sakurai