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The Long Excuse

Original title: Nagai iiwake
  • 20162016
  • 2h 4m
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7.2/10
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Eri Fukatsu, Masahiro Motoki, Keiko Horiuchi, Pistol Takehara, Kenshin Fujita, and Tamaki Shiratori in The Long Excuse (2016)
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... Read allA 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.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.
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1.2K
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    • Miwa Nishikawa
    • Miwa Nishikawa(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Masahiro Motoki
    • Pistol Takehara
    • Eri Fukatsu
    • Miwa Nishikawa
    • Miwa Nishikawa(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Masahiro Motoki
    • Pistol Takehara
    • Eri Fukatsu
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    • 5User reviews
    • 20Critic reviews
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    Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, and Tamaki Shiratori in The Long Excuse (2016)
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    Masahiro Motoki
    Masahiro Motoki
    • Sachio Kinugasa
    Pistol Takehara
    • Yoichi Omiya
    Eri Fukatsu
    Eri Fukatsu
    • Natsuko Kinugasa
    Kenshin Fujita
    • Shinpei Omiya
    Tamaki Shiratori
    • Akari Omiya
    Sôsuke Ikematsu
    Sôsuke Ikematsu
    • Shinsuke Kishimoto
    Haru Kuroki
    Haru Kuroki
    • Chihiro Fukunaga
    Keiko Horiuchi
    • Yuki, Yoichi's wife
    Maho Yamada
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    Chikako Hara
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    Katsuya Kobayashi
    • Kozo Yamamoto
    Izumi Matsuoka
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      Shigeyuki Totsugi
      Shigeyuki Totsugi
      Tokuhisa Yamashita
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        • Miwa Nishikawa(screenplay) (novel)
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        from the opera "Xerxes"

        Written by Georg Frideric Haendel

        performed by Aoi Teshima

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      7/10
      Watch this because of Koreeda-san
      After watch a lot of movies by Koreeda-san, I wonder if there is any today japanese director who follows his path. Do the same kind of movie. After some intense googling, they lead me to Miwa Nishikawa. Turned out I have watch "Dream for Sale" (2012) before and its not good. So I lower my expectation for this "Long Excuse" and yeah, its good. Its like a rough version of Koreeda's kind of film. Its not smooth but its kind of enjoyable. Make me want to try "Sway" and "Dear Doctor" later but I must know that she is not Koreeda. She is Nishikawa!
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        • October 14, 2016 (Japan)
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        • Tokyo, Japan
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        • AOI Promotion
        • Asmik Ace Entertainment
        • Bandai Visual Company
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      • 2 hours 4 minutes
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