The Fossil

The Fossil

NR 1975 · 201 min · ★ 7.2 · Drama, Fantasy

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to imagine her as the personification of his impending fate. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he meets the living woman, 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 that profoundly test the lessons he has learned.

Directed by Masaki Kobayashi · Written by Shun Inagaki

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Shin Saburi Tajihei Itsuki
Keiko Kishi Madame Marcelin
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
Ichirō Nakatani Taisuke (Itskuki's brother)
Yoshio Inaba Toyoshima
Sue Mitobe Itsuki family's maid

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