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.

The Long Excuse is a 2016 drama movie directed by Miwa Nishikawa, starring Masahiro Motoki, Pistol Takehara, Kenshin Fujita. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.2/10 from 1,388 votes and runs 2h 4m.