The Long Excuse

Directed by Miwa Nishikawa

With Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Kenshin Fujita, Tamaki Shiratori and Keiko Horiuchi

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.