The Long Excuse
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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Top Cast
Masahiro Motoki
Sachio Kinugasa
Pistol Takehara
Yoichi
Kenshin Fujita
Shinpei
Tamaki Shiratori
Akari
Keiko Horiuchi
Yuki
Sosuke Ikematsu
Kishimoto
Haru Kuroki
Chihiro Fukunaga
Maho Yamada
Yuko
Eri Fukatsu
Natsuko
Izumi Matsuoka
Kotoe Kurita
Hideto Iwai
Suon Kan
Shigeyuki Totsugi
Yasushi Fuchikami
Jiji Bû
Katsuya Kobayashi
Tae Kimura
Makita Sports
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