The Long Excuse
Nagai iiwake
2016, Film, 124 min, Drama, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 67
A recently widowed writer whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief—or lack of it—in caring for the children of a working man who also lost his wife in the same accident.
Directed by Miwa Nishikawa
Cast
- Masahiro Motoki as Sachio Kinugasa
- Pistol Takehara as Yoichi Ômiya
- Kenshin Fujita as Shinpei Ômiya
- Tamaki Shiratori as Akari Ômiya
- Sôsuke Ikematsu as Shinsuke Kishimoto
- Haru Kuroki as Chihiro Fukunaga
- Maho Yamada as Yôko Kaburaki
- Keiko Horiuchi as Yuki Ômiya
- Izumi Matsuoka as Kotoe Kurita
- Hideto Iwai as Kôichiro Kuwana
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