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125 Years Memory

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.

2015 |2h 12m |  History, Drama

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Cast

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Seiyo Uchino

Motosada Tamura

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Kenan Ece

Mustafa / Murat

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Shioli Kutsuna

Haru / Harumi

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Alican Yücesoy

Bekir

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Yui Natsukawa

Yuki

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Toshiyuki Nagashima

Yutaka Nomura

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Naoto Takenaka

Kudo

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Takashi Sasano

Mayor Sato

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Shunsuke Daitoh

Shintaro

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Ayako Kobayashi

Tome

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Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Gentaro Fujimoto

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Takayuki Takuma

Kimura

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Gota Watabe

Shinichi

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Yuu Tokui

Heiji

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Yukijiro Hotaru

Takeshita

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Rino Katase

Sato

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Naoki Kawano

Mankichi

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Mehmet Özgür

Âli Bey

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Hitomi Miwa

Katsu

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Uğur Polat

Osman Pasha

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Tomoko Saitō

Nobu

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Melis Babadağ

Hatice

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Nobue Iketani

Kiyo

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Ayumi Takano

Michi Kimura

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Minosuke

Takeo

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Deniz Oral

Turgut Özal

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Noboru Kaneko

Yamamoto

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Hakkı Haluk Cömert

Mahmut

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Yuuki Tsujimoto

Yano

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Cem Cücenoğlu

Naci

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Toshie Takada

Miyamoto

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Mert Aygün

Ali Efendi

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Koichi Ueda

Fukushima

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Tamer Levent

Süleyman Bey

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Kenichirou Yasui

Japanese Diplomat

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Duygu Sarişin

Turkish Airlines Staff

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Minami Kajihara

Tae

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Pınar Alçınkaya

Mahmut's Wife

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Halit Mızraklı

Selim

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Alper Düzen

İhsan Pekel

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Sato Higashi

Biwa Artist in Kushimoto

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Ayhan Işık

Veysel Atasoy

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Chiyo Takahashi

Courtesan in Kushimoto

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Oğuz Okul

Turkish Bureaucrat

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Akane Owaki

Courtesan in Kushimoto

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Can Şentürk

Turkish Airlines Staff

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Ayami Nakamura

Courtesan in Kushimoto

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Eray Ayaz

Can

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Momoko Kato

Japanese National in Tehran

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Erkan Pekbay

Sarkis

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Natsuka Ogawa

Japanese National in Tehran

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Savaş Satış

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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Mika Kitajima

Japanese National in Tehran

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Ali Açıkbaş

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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Shingo Koike

Naoki Agata

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Sedat Ali Erdinç

Turkish Naval Officer

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Ruka Wakabayashi

Hiroyuki Kimura

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Bertan Dirikolu

Turkish Naval Officer

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Takashi Noguchi

Village Elder

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Yağız Elmastaşoğlu

Salih

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Ryuji Komine

Village Elder

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Oğuz Öztekin

Hayri

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Munenori Nagano

Kushimoto Resident

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Onur Sarıaltın

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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Chikara Honda

Kushimoto Resident

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Aras Kösedağ

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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Marie Kobayashi

Kushimoto Resident

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Egemen Beşer

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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Kinari Tsujimoto

Village Child

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Görkem Mertsöz

Mehmet Ali

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Kenzo Ryu

Mayor Sato's Aide

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Sabri Memi

Turkish Naval Officer

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Man Kato

Nobu's Husband

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Masataka Kobayashi

Japanese Embassy Staff

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Emiko Miyazaki

Kushimoto Resident

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Murat Serezli

Turkish Airlines Official

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Tsuto Kawai

Japanese National in Tehran

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Yuusaku Tanaka

Yoshimoto

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Shunchou Katsura

Kushimoto Resident

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Serdar Yeğin

Orhan Suyolcu

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Yeliz Çelebi

Müge Sayar

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Can Akalın

Hüseyin

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Kaori Takeda

Kushimoto Resident

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Yukari Okumura

Kushimoto Resident

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Tina Kusumoto

Courtesan in Kushimoto

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Mieko Hoshino

Kushimoto Resident

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Kozue Ueda

Kushimoto Resident

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Katsuyuki Tai

Kushimoto Resident

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Akihiro Kawatsuru

Kushimoto Resident

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Hitoshi Nonomura

Kushimoto Resident

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Hiroshi Urano

Japanese National in Tehran

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Kota Fuji

Teacher in Tehran

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Ahmet İlker Okumuş

Abuzer

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Bahtiyar Memili

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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Hakan Atalay

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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İsmet Kapısız

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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Caner Arıkan

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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İlker Alemdar

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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Mehmet Bezgin

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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Ali Hikmet Kürekçi

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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Mehmet Pala

Ertuğrul Crew Member

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Suzuto Mukai

Village Child

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Tamaki Kato

Village Child

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Nana Moriwaki

Kushimoto Resident

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Kentarou Hayashi

Kushimoto Resident

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Koichi Koshinaka

Japanese Naval Officer

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Masayuki Ota

Kushimoto Resident

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Shinobu Sakurai

Kushimoto Resident

More Details

Status

Released

Language

English, Japanese, Turkish

Budget

$15,000,000.00

Revenue

$8,596,000.00