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The Long Excuse
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Wikipedia article
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| director = Miwa Nishikawa
| producer = Asako Nishikawa
Akihiko Yose
Tetsuo Ota
Shuichi Nagasawa
Kiyoto Matsui
Takashi Iwamura
| screenplay = Miwa Nishikawa
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| cinematography = Yutaka Yamazaki
| editing = Ryuji Miyajima
| studio = Aoi Pro
| distributor = Asmik Ace
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| runtime = 124 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
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is a 2016 Japanese drama film directed by Miwa Nishikawa, starring Masahiro Motoki. It depicts the well-being and uncertainty of relationships through how people who suddenly lose their families restore their lives.
Plot
Sachio (Masahiro Motoki) is a noted celebrity writer from the country, who has snobbishly dismissed his background and become somewhat arrogant. He has largely fallen out of love with his wife Natsuko (Eri Fukatsu), a hairdresser. When she dies in a bus crash, he is in bed with his mistress. Despite this, he feels no guilt, which disgusts his mistress, who, already racked with guilt, leaves him.
Sachio's wife was travelling on the bus with her friend Yuki (Keiko Horiuchi), who also died in the crash. He is contacted by her husband Yoichi Omiya, a truck driver who, with his wife's death, has been left to look after two small children and is not coping. Sachio offers to help, and assists with the raising of the children. When doing it, he ponders his own lack of grief for his wife, and realises that he is dealing with his own guilt by looking after the children. Sachio is forced to reevaluate his own life, including why he didn't have children of his own.
Yoichi too finds that he had become somewhat detached from his children. When Yoichi finds a new partner, Sachio has to leave the children. He ends up writing a new book about the experience, and plays an unexpected role in the children's lives, eventually finding some closure for the loss of his wife.
Cast
* Masahiro Motoki as Sachio Kinugasa
* Eri Fukatsu as Natsuko Kinugasa
* Pistol Takehara as Yoichi Omiya
* Kenshin Fujita
* Tamaki Shiratori
* Keiko Horiuchi
* Sosuke Ikematsu
* Haru Kuroki
* Maho Yamada
* Izumi Matsuoka
* Shigeyuki Totsugi
* Hideto Iwai
Awards
References
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