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A Story of Friendship and Compassion
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.Read moreLess
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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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 UchinoMotosada Tamura
Kenan EceMustafa / Murat
Shioli KutsunaHaru / Harumi
Alican YücesoyBekir
Yui NatsukawaYuki
Toshiyuki NagashimaYutaka Nomura
Naoto TakenakaKudo
Takashi SasanoMayor Sato
Shunsuke DaitohShintaro
Ayako KobayashiTome
Yukiyoshi OzawaGentaro Fujimoto
Takayuki TakumaKimuraExplore the crew
- Producer
- Oji Morita
- Screenplay
- Eriko Komatsu
- Director
- Mitsutoshi Tanaka
- Editor
- Akimasa Kawashima
- Director of Photography
- Tetsuo Nagata
- Original Music Composer
- Michiru Oshima
- Producer
- Norihisa Ohara
- Producer
- Ryosuke Otani
- Producer
- Riuko Tominaga
- Producer
- Kazuhito Amano
- Producer
- Teiji Ozawa