The Fossil (1974)
3h 21m
Running Time
January 1, 1974Release Date

Plot.
An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is on a trip to Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japanese woman in that setting causes him to fantasize about her as the personification of his impending death. As his dialogue with his imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is 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 which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.
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Cast & Crew.

Shin Saburi
Tajihei Itsuki

Keiko Kishi
Madame Marcelin

Gō Katō
Narrator

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

Yoshio Inaba
Toyoshima

Sue Mitobe
Itsuki family's maid

Shigeru Kōyama
Dr. Kihara

Tetsuo Hasegawa
Akiko's husband

Ichirō Nakatani
Taisuke (Itskuki's brother) / Taisuke, Tajihei's brother

Jūkichi Uno
Tappei Yakubi / Tappei Yabuki
Details.
Release DateJanuary 1, 1974
Original Name化石
StatusReleased
Running Time3h 21m
Genres
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Wiki.
The Fossil (化石, Kaseki) 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.
A re-edited version was released theatrically in 1975. The theatrical version was Japan's submission to the 47th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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