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About
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.
Theatrical
Sep 9, 1976
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Yonki-no-Kai Productions, Haiyuza Eiga Hoso Company
Original Title
化石
Original Language
Japanese
Cast
Full credits →S
Shin Saburi
Tajihei Itsuki
K
Keiko Kishi
Madame Marcelin
H
Hisashi Igawa
Funazu
M
Mayumi Ogawa
Akiko Itsuki
K
Komaki Kurihara
Kiyoko Itsuki
K
Kei Yamamoto
Akihiko Kishi
O
Orie Satō
Kishi's wife
S
Seiji Miyaguchi
Sunami
H
Haruko Sugimura
Itsuki's stepmother
I
Ichirō Nakatani
Taisuke (Itskuki's brother)
Y
Yoshio Inaba
Toyoshima
S
Sue Mitobe
Itsuki family's maid
J
Jūkichi Uno
Tappei Yakubi
S
Shigeru Kōyama
Dr. Kihara
T
Tetsuo Hasegawa
Akiko's husband
Y
Yūsuke Takita
G
Gō Katō
Narrator (voice)
