The Fossil (1975)
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.
- Released
- 1975-10-04
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
- Runtime
- 201 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Masaki Kobayashi, Takeshi Yoshida, Shun Inagaki
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 from 13 votes
Cast
- Shin Saburi as Tajihei Itsuki
- Keiko Kishi as Madame Marcelin
- 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
- Sue Mitobe as Itsuki family's maid