Actor Masahiro Motoki, who has continued to take on challenges throughout his long career and has received numerous awards both at home and abroad, and model UTA, who continues to take on challenges ...

This stately, slow-burning drama by Kiyoshi Kurosawa harks back to classic jidaigeki Samurai films of the 1940s and 1950s. It ...

There’s nothing death-defying in “Departures,” but there is magic in its well-orchestrated movements to bring life and death into harmony. It hums along, too, largely on the strength of a terrific ...

TOKYO – “Departures” star Masahiro Motoki will head the cast of hot auteur Miwa Nishikawa’s new film “The Long Excuse.” The movie is a drama based on her own novel about a writer in mourning after ...

Masahiro Motoki has signed on to lead the cast of author Miwa Nishikawa's upcoming film "The Long Excuse." It's based on her novel about a newly widowed writer, according to Variety. Motoki is best ...

The film stars Masahiro Motoki as a widow coming to terms with his grief. Miwa Nishikawa is no stranger to the Toronto International Film Festival, as her last film, “Dream for Sale,” was screened at ...

In “The Long Excuse,” Masahiro Motoki — star of the Oscar-winning “Departures” — makes a startling comeback as a novelist who discovers his coldheartedness upon his wife’s sudden death.

What most impressed you about Joe Barton’s scripts? I was interested in the complex and unique pace at which the story skips back and forth through time and space. The flashbacks weren’t just ...