The Fossil (1975)
3h 20m
Running Time
October 4, 1975Release Date
The Fossil (1975)
3h 20m
Running Time
October 4, 1975Release Date
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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 Kazuki
Mayumi Ogawa
Akiko Kazuki
Gō Katō
Narrator
Hisashi Igawa
Funazu
Keiko Kishi
Woman (Death)
Komaki Kurihara
Kiyoko Kazuki
Masaki Kobayashi
Director
Shun Inagaki
Writer
Kei Yamamoto
Akihiko Kishi
Yasushi Inoue
Writer
Orie Satō
Kishi's wife
Seiji Miyaguchi
Sunami
Gin'ichi Kishimoto
Producer
Haruko Sugimura
Itsuki's stepmother
Masayuki Satō
Producer
Yoshio Inaba
Toyoshima
Details.
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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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