The Fossil (1975)
化石
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.
- Date of release
- 1975-10-04
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 3h 21m
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy
- Director
- Masaki Kobayashi
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
- Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1
The Fossil is a Japanese TV miniseries which screened in eight parts between 31 January and 20 March 1972. It was directed by Masaki Kobayashi and based on a novel by Yasushi Inoue. The series received the same year's Nippon Television Technology Award for photography.
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