The Fossil
化石
Release: 1975-10-04
·Runtime: 201m
·★ 6.8
Drama
Fantasy
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Yonki-no-Kai Productions
Haiyuza Eiga Hoso Company
Cast
Shin Saburi
as Tajihei Itsuki
Keiko Kishi
as Madame Marcelin
Gō Katō
as Narrator
Hisashi Igawa
as Funazu
Mayumi Ogawa
as Akiko Itsuki
Komaki Kurihara
as Kiyoko Itsuki
Kei Yamamoto
as Akihiko Kishi
Orie Satō
as Kishi's wife
Seiji Miyaguchi
as Sunami
Haruko Sugimura
as Itsuki's stepmother
Ichirō Nakatani
as Taisuke (Itskuki's brother)
Yoshio Inaba
as Toyoshima
Jūkichi Uno
as Tappei Yakubi
Shigeru Kōyama
as Dr. Kihara
Ichirō Nakatani
as Taisuke, Tajihei's brother
Yūsuke Takita
Jūkichi Uno
as Tappei Yabuki
