Suzuto Mukai

A drama in which Yasuko Sawaguchi starred in the movie for the first time in nine years since "Autumn Autumn" and played an elementary school teacher who loves children. Tomoyo Miki became a third-grade class teacher at the transferred elementary school. Children with a variety of circumstances, such as children with a "situation mood disorder" that cannot speak at all at school, and children with a lot of troubled behaviors who have a poor life due to the debt of their divorced mother and father. Tomoyo, in cooperation with his classmates and parents, face each other with all his might. The original is a novel of the same name by Fumiko Shibakaki who has experience as a primary school teacher. Sawaguchi plays the role of Tomoyo Miki, a female teacher of the main character, and Yuhiro Murata, Kumiko Endo, Yuriko Hoshi and others set aside.

日本・トルコ合作映画。壮大なスケールで贈る真実の物語。二つのエピソードで構成。１８９０年、和歌山県串本町沖、トルコの親善使節団を乗せた軍艦エルトゥールル号が座礁して大破、海に投げ出された乗組員５００名以上が暴風雨で命を落とす。そうした過酷な状況下で、地元住民が懸命の救援活動に乗り出す。それから時を経たイラン・イラク戦争中の１９８５年、日本政府は危機的状況を理由にイラン在留邦人の救出を断念。テヘランに残された邦人は300名以上。そんな中、トルコ政府は彼らのためにある行動を取る。国境を越えた真の友情を描く感動作。第３９回日本アカデミー賞において、優秀作品賞と優秀監督賞をはじめとする１０部門で優秀賞を受賞。美術と録音部門は最優秀賞を獲得。