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The Long Excuse(2016)
Status: Released
Date: 2016-10-14
67%
32 Votes
Time: 2h 4m
Overview:
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.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
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Movie: The Long Excuse
Top 10 Billed Cast
本木雅弘
Sachio Kinugasa
竹原ピストル
Yoichi
白鳥玉季
Akari
堀内敬子
Yuki
池松壮亮
Kishimoto
黒木華
Chihiro Fukunaga
山田真歩
Yuko
深津絵里
Natsuko
松岡依都美
Kotoe Kurita
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