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The Long Excuse (Nagai iiwake) [Sub: Eng]
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Sachio Kinugasa (Masahiro Motoki) is a popular writer. His wife (Eri Fukatsu) of many years dies in a bus accident. Although they did not love each other, Sachio Kinugasa has to act broken-hearted. Sachio then meets the bereaved family of Yoichi Omiya (Pistol Takehara) and his two children. Yochi Omiya's wife (Keiko Horiuchi) also died in the bus accident and was friends with Sachio Kinugasa's wife. Yochi Omiya works as a truck driver and he's in despair over his wife's death. Sachio Kinugasa doesn't know why, but he offers to take care of Yochi Omiya's two children.
Sachio Kinugasa (Masahiro Motoki) is a popular writer. His wife (Eri Fukatsu) of many years dies in a bus accident. Although they did not love each other, Sachio Kinugasa has to act broken-hearted. Sachio then meets the bereaved family of Yoichi Omiya (Pistol Takehara) and his two children. Yochi Omiya's wife (Keiko Horiuchi) also died in the bus accident and was friends with Sachio Kinugasa's wife. Yochi Omiya works as a truck driver and he's in despair over his wife's death. Sachio Kinugasa doesn't know why, but he offers to take care of Yochi Omiya's two children.
Actors:
Katsuya Kobayashi,
Tamaki Shiratori,
Eri Fukatsu,
Maho Yamada,
Kenshin Fujita,
Masahiro Motoki,
Keiko Horiuchi,
Pistol Takehara,
Sôsuke Ikematsu,
Haru Kuroki
Katsuya Kobayashi
March 25, 1943 in Tokyo, Japan
Tamaki Shiratori
Eri Fukatsu
11 January 1973, Oita, Japan
Maho Yamada
Kenshin Fujita
Masahiro Motoki
Keiko Horiuchi
Pistol Takehara
Sôsuke Ikematsu
9 July 1990, Dazaifu, Japan
Haru Kuroki
14 March 1990, Osaka, Japan
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Miwa Nishikawa
Miwa Nishikawa
Country:
Japan
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December 07, 2016
Masahiro Motoki makes it all a joy to watch, lending a complex touch of humanity to an unlikeable role that's more involving than it has presumably any right to be.
October 12, 2016
Whether or not you believe he truly redeems himself -- I was of two minds until the end -- the film delivers a catharsis that is earned, not tacked onto an obligatory happy ending.
September 21, 2016
Writer-director Miwa Nishikawa's somber reflection on the strains of marriage and parenthood is punctuated with beautiful existential undertones.
July 26, 2017
Even resorting to some sentimentality, The Long Excuse reached me in the way it treats camaraderie, personal growth, and family ties with sagacious integrity.

