125 Years Memory (2015)
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.
Director:
Mitsutoshi Tanaka
Writer:
Eriko Komatsu
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Seiyo Uchino as Motosada Tamura |
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Kenan Ece as Mustafa / Murat |
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Shioli Kutsuna as Haru / Harumi |
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Alican Yücesoy as Bekir |
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Yui Natsukawa as Yuki |
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Toshiyuki Nagashima as Yutaka Nomura |
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Naoto Takenaka as Kudo |
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Takashi Sasano as Mayor Sato |
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Shunsuke Daitoh as Shintaro |
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Ayako Kobayashi as Tome |
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Yukiyoshi Ozawa as Gentaro Fujimoto |
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Takayuki Takuma as Kimura |
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Gota Watabe as Shinichi |
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Yuu Tokui as Heiji |
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Yukijiro Hotaru as Takeshita |
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Rino Katase as Sato |
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Naoki Kawano as Mankichi |
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Mehmet Özgür as Âli Bey |
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Hitomi Miwa as Katsu |
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Uğur Polat as Osman Pasha |
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Tomoko Saitō as Nobu |
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Melis Babadağ as Hatice |
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Nobue Iketani as Kiyo |
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Ayumi Takano as Michi Kimura |
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Minosuke as Takeo |
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Deniz Oral as Turgut Özal |
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Noboru Kaneko as Yamamoto |
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Hakkı Haluk Cömert as Mahmut |
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Yuuki Tsujimoto as Yano |
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Cem Cücenoğlu as Naci |
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Toshie Takada as Miyamoto |
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Mert Aygün as Ali Efendi |
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Koichi Ueda as Fukushima |
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Tamer Levent as Süleyman Bey |
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Kenichiro Yasui as Japanese Diplomat |
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Duygu Sarışın as Turkish Airlines Staff |
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Minami Kajihara as Tae |
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Pınar Alçınkaya as Mahmut's Wife |
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Halit Mızraklı as Selim |
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Alper Düzen as İhsan Pekel |
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Sato Higashi as Biwa Artist in Kushimoto |
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Ayhan Işık as Veysel Atasoy |
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Chiyo Takahashi as Courtesan in Kushimoto |
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Oğuz Okul as Turkish Bureaucrat |
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Akane Owaki as Courtesan in Kushimoto |
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Can Şentürk as Turkish Airlines Staff |
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Ayami Nakamura as Courtesan in Kushimoto |
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Eray Ayaz as Can |
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Momoko Kato as Japanese National in Tehran |
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Erkan Pekbay as Sarkis |
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Natsuka Ogawa as Japanese National in Tehran |
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Savaş Satış as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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Mika Kitajima as Japanese National in Tehran |
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Ali Açıkbaş as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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Shingo Koike as Naoki Agata |
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Sedat Ali Erdinç as Turkish Naval Officer |
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Ruka Wakabayashi as Hiroyuki Kimura |
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Bertan Dirikolu as Turkish Naval Officer |
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Takashi Noguchi as Village Elder |
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Yağız Elmastaşoğlu as Salih |
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Ryuji Komine as Village Elder |
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Oğuz Öztekin as Hayri |
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Munenori Nagano as Kushimoto Resident |
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Onur Sarıaltın as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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Chikara Honda as Kushimoto Resident |
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Aras Kösedağ as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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Marie Kobayashi as Kushimoto Resident |
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Egemen Beşer as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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Kinari Tsujimoto as Village Child |
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Görkem Mertsöz as Mehmet Ali |
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Kenzo Ryu as Mayor Sato's Aide |
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Sabri Memi as Turkish Naval Officer |
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Man Kato as Nobu's Husband |
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Masataka Kobayashi as Japanese Embassy Staff |
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Emiko Miyazaki as Kushimoto Resident |
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Murat Serezli as Turkish Airlines Official |
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Tsuto Kawai as Japanese National in Tehran |
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Yuusaku Tanaka as Yoshimoto |
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Shunchou Katsura as Kushimoto Resident |
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Serdar Yeğin as Orhan Suyolcu |
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Yeliz Çelebi as Müge Sayar |
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Can Akalın as Hüseyin |
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Kaori Takeda as Kushimoto Resident |
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Yukari Okumura as Kushimoto Resident |
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Tina Kusumoto as Courtesan in Kushimoto |
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Mieko Hoshino as Kushimoto Resident |
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Kozue Ueda as Kushimoto Resident |
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Katsuyuki Tai as Kushimoto Resident |
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Akihiro Kawatsuru as Kushimoto Resident |
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Hitoshi Nonomura as Kushimoto Resident |
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Hiroshi Urano as Japanese National in Tehran |
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Kota Fuji as Teacher in Tehran |
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Ahmet İlker Okumuş as Abuzer |
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Bahtiyar Memili as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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Hakan Atalay as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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İsmet Kapısız as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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Caner Arıkan as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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İlker Alemdar as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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Mehmet Bezgin as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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Ali Hikmet Kürekçi as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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Mehmet Pala as Ertuğrul Crew Member |
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Suzuto Mukai as Village Child |
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Tamaki Kato as Village Child |
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Nana Moriwaki as Kushimoto Resident |
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Kentarou Hayashi as Kushimoto Resident |
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Koichi Koshinaka as Japanese Naval Officer |
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Masayuki Ota as Kushimoto Resident |
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Shinobu Sakurai as Kushimoto Resident |
| Editing | Halit Mızraklı | Project Manager |
| Camera | Masahiro Aida | Aerial Director of Photography |
| Crew | Kinsyu Wakayagi | Choreographer |
| Sound | Marina Dubovskova | Music Coordinator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Midori Yamashita | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Makiko Kitagawa | Hairstylist |
| Crew | Sato Higashi | Dialect Coach |
| Production | Oji Morita | Producer |
| Directing | Yusuke Nakagawa | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Mika Toyoda | Novel |
| Sound | Denis Caribaux | Sound Mixer |
| Visual Effects | Takeshi Himi | Visual Effects Producer |
| Sound | Aziz Şenol Filiz | Musician |
| Writing | Eriko Komatsu | Screenplay |
| Sound | Alexander Polianichko | Conductor |
| Sound | Yuki Mototani | Music Editor |
| Sound | Genichi Tsushima | Music Producer |
| Sound | Akira Nakamoto | Music Supervisor |
| Directing | Takashi Inoue | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Mitsutoshi Tanaka | Director |
| Sound | Kubat | Theme Song Performance |
| Sound | Alexander Volkov | Sound Engineer |
| Camera | Takumi Hirano | Underwater Director of Photography |
| Editing | Akimasa Kawashima | Editor |
| Camera | Masahiro Aida | Camera Operator |
| Crew | Hiroshi Butsuda | Special Effects |
| Camera | Tetsuo Nagata | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Michiru Oshima | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Hidefumi Hanatani | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jotaro Saito | Costume Design |
| Art | Sisyu | Title Illustration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gamze Kuş | Costume Design |
| Camera | Masakazu Akagi | Underwater Camera |
| Visual Effects | Koichi Noguchi | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Visual Effects | Masaaki Kamada | Visual Effects Director |
| Production | Norihisa Ohara | Producer |
| Production | Hidenobu Muramatsu | Executive Producer |
| Production | Ryosuke Otani | Producer |
| Production | Riuko Tominaga | Producer |
| Production | Kazuhito Amano | Producer |
| Production | Teiji Ozawa | Producer |
| Camera | Julien Bachelier | Digital Imaging Technician |
| Directing | Kazumi Matsuzawa | Script Supervisor |
| Sound | Kenji Shibasaki | Sound Designer |
| Production | Yasuhiro Fukuoka | Casting Producer |
| Writing | Takashi Inoue | Script Consultant |
| Production | Ryosuke Kijiya | Executive Producer |
| Production | Keitaro Shimizu | Production Manager |
| Lighting | Kiyoto Ando | Gaffer |
| Sound | Nobuhiko Matsukage | Sound Recordist |