Movie
The Long Excuse
2016 · 124 min
A quiet, introspective drama that unfolds slowly, inviting you to sit with uncomfortable questions about love, loss, and the stories we tell ourselves.
- Directed by
- Miwa Nishikawa
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Kenshin Fujita
- Overview
- 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.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest, warm and cynical. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Grief, guilt, family, parenthood
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Miwa Nishikawa
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Kenshin Fujita
