The Long Excuse

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• Movie: The Long Excuse
• Romaji: Nagai Iiwake
• Japanese: 永い言い訳
• Director: Miwa Nishikawa
• Writer: Miwa Nishikawa
• Producer: Asako Nishikawa, Akihiko Yose
• Cinematographer: Yutaka Yamazaki
• Release Date: October 14, 2016
• Runtime: 123 min.
• Genre: Drama
• Distributor: Asmik Ace Entertainment
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

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.

Notes

1. Based on novel "Nagai Iiwake" by Miwa Nishikawa (published February 25, 2015 by Bungeishunju). Although the novel did not win, it was nominated for the 153rd Naoki Prize in 2015.

Cast

Masahiro Motoki	Pistol Takehara	Kenshin Fujita	Tamaki Shiratori	Keiko Horiuchi
Sachio Kinugasa	Yoichi Omiya	Shinpei Omiya	Akari Omiya	Yuki Omiya

Sosuke Ikematsu	Haru Kuroki	Maho Yamada	Eri Fukatsu
Nobusuke Kishimoto	Chihiro Fukunaga	Yuko Kaburagi	Natsuko Kinugasa

Additional Cast Members:

• Izumi Matsuoka - Kotoe Kurita
• Hideto Iwai - Hideto Kuwana
• Suon Kan - Junnosuke Oshita
• Shigeyuki Totsugi - Naoya Tabara
• Yasushi Fuchikami - Kai-kun
• Jiji Boo - Kosaku Masuda
• Katsuya Kobayashi - Kozo Yamamoto
• Arisa Nakajima - Mao Hashimoto
• Koji Seki
• Yukihiro Nishiyama
• Atsushi Honma
• Rin Kijima - female high school student

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Jay Quintana Sep 21 2017 1:36 am Wow, what could easily be seen as a contrived plot comes across as very natural. This movie has great acting and wonderful cinematography. I believe Miwa Nishikawa is Hirokazu Koreeda's protege. She's done her senpai proud.

Mim May 26 2017 9:25 am One of the best movies for 2016! Arigatou!