If you loved The Long Excuse, try Wild Berries
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Wild Berries has roughly 3.6× fewer votes than The Long Excuse — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Miwa Nishikawa, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Long Excuse, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Wild Berries is
Small-town Japanese family learns not all returns are fond, especially when one son arrives with more luggage than memories. After a decade away, the prodigal’s charm proves thinner than his excuses. Meanwhile, the berry harvest wilts under the weight of his bad jokes.
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