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The Fossil

01/01/1974

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3hrs 21min

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Drama

,Fantasy

STORY

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is the template for his fantasy, and together they tour rural churches. Gradually he comes to some kind of peace about the diagnosis. When he returns to Japan, he is met with a series of challenges which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Shin Saburi
  • Keiko Kishi
  • Gō Katō
  • Hisashi Igawa
  • Mayumi Ogawa

    Director

  • Masaki Kobayashi

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Yonki-no-Kai Productions
  • Haiyuza Eiga Hoso Company

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese

Cast

Shin Saburi

Tajihei Itsuki

Keiko Kishi

Madame Marcelin

Gō Katō

Narrator

Hisashi Igawa

Funazu

Mayumi Ogawa

Akiko Itsuki

Komaki Kurihara

Kiyoko Itsuki

Kei Yamamoto

Akihiko Kishi

Orie Satō

Kishi's wife

Seiji Miyaguchi

Sunami

Haruko Sugimura

Itsuki's stepmother

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