The Long Excuse 2016

The movie is a drama based on Nishikawa’s novel about a writer in mourning after losing his wife in an accident. Motoki, played the apprentice undertaker in the 2008 Oscar winner “Departures.” Eri Fukatsu, who starred in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cannes entry “Journey to the Shore,” will play the writer’s wife. Pistol Takehara, a boxer turned performer, plays the writer’s similarly bereaved truck driver acquaintance.