The Long Excuse (2016)
Original title: 永い言い訳
The Long Excuse is a 2016 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Miwa Nishikawa, with a running time of 2h 4m. It stars Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara and Kenshin Fujita.
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.