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The Fossil (1975)

The Fossil (1975)

Drama Fantasy
Release Date: 1975, October 4
Directors: Masaki Kobayashi
Countries: Japan
Production: Yonki-no-Kai Productions, Haiyuza Eiga Hoso Company, Haiyuza Eiga Hoso Company
Cast: Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Ichirō Nakatani, Hisashi Igawa, Haruko Sugimura, Sue Mitobe, Keiko Kishi, Shigeru Kōyama, Kei Yamamoto, Mayumi Ogawa, Gō Katō, Jūkichi Uno

Overview:

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.