The Fossil

The Fossil (1975)


  • Genre: Drama, Fantasy
  • Release Date: 1975-10-04
  • User Rating: 6.8/10 from 11 ratings
  • Runtime: 3h 21min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Yonki-no-Kai Productions
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Masaki Kobayashi
star 6.8/10
From 11 Ratings

Summary

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.

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  • 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
  • Sue Mitobe

    as Itsuki family's maid
  • Jūkichi Uno

    as Tappei Yakubi
  • Shigeru Kōyama

    as Dr. Kihara
  • Tetsuo Hasegawa

    as Akiko's husband
  • Ichirō Nakatani

    as Taisuke, Tajihei's brother
  • Yūsuke Takita

    as
  • Jūkichi Uno

    as Tappei Yabuki
  • Kei Yamamoto

    as Akihiko Kishi
Directing Masaki Kobayashi Director
Writing Shun Inagaki Screenplay
Writing Takeshi Yoshida Screenplay
Writing Yasushi Inoue Novel
Production Gin'ichi Kishimoto Producer
Production Masayuki Satō Producer
Editing Keiichi Uraoka Editor
Camera Kōzō Okazaki Director of Photography
Sound Toru Takemitsu Original Music Composer

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