Fossil

Fossil — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 31, 1972
• Runtime
• 56 min

Fossil — Cast

Shin Saburi Tajihei Kazuki Mayumi Ogawa Akiko Kazuki Keiko Kishi Madame Marcelin Komaki Kurihara Kiyoko Kazuki Haruko Sugimura Mother-in-Law Hisashi Igawa Funazu Gō Katō Narrator