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.
Is The Long Excuse on Netflix? Unfortunately the movie The Long Excuse is not yet available on Netflix.
| Production | Kenji Hamada | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Aoi Teshima | Theme Song Performance |
| Directing | Miwa Nishikawa | Director |
| Writing | Miwa Nishikawa | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mutsuki Sakai | Makeup & Hair |
| Camera | Yutaka Yamazaki | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Miwako Kobayashi | Costume Design |
| Editing | Ryuji Miyajima | Editor |
| Sound | Michiaki Katoh | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Keiko Mitsumatsu | Production Design |
| Production | Toshie Tabata | Casting |
| Production | Akihiko Yose | Producer |
| Sound | Toshihiro Nakanishi | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Tetsuo Ohta | Producer |
| Production | Ippei Fukuda | Executive Producer |
| Production | Yasuhito Nakae | Producer |
| Production | Kiyoto Matsui | Producer |
| Production | Masarou Toyoshima | Executive Producer |
| Production | Kazumi Kawashiro | Producer |
| Production | Takashi Iwamura | Producer |
| Production | Asako Nishikawa | Producer |
| Production | Kiyoshi Nishikawa | Executive Producer |
| Production | Shûichi Nagasawa | Producer |
| Production | Hideki Tagami | Executive Producer |
| Lighting | Kosuke Yamamoto | Gaffer |
| Sound | Masaya Kitada | Sound Effects |