The Long Excuse
Oct 14 2016
•2h 4m
•Drama
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.
Cast
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Masahiro Motoki
Sachio Kinugasa
Pistol Takehara
Yoichi
Kenshin Fujita
Shinpei
Tamaki Shiratori
Akari
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