The Long Excuse (2016)
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.
Top billed cast
Masahiro MotokiSachio Kinugasa
Pistol TakeharaYoichi
Kenshin FujitaShinpei
Tamaki ShiratoriAkari
Keiko HoriuchiYuki
Sosuke IkematsuKishimoto
Haru KurokiChihiro Fukunaga
Maho YamadaYuko
Eri FukatsuNatsuko
Izumi MatsuokaKotoe Kurita
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