The Fossil

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Shin SaburiTajihei Itsuki

Keiko KishiMadame Marcelin

Hisashi IgawaFunazu

Mayumi OgawaAkiko Itsuki

Komaki KuriharaKiyoko Itsuki

Kei YamamotoAkihiko Kishi

Orie SatōKishi's wife

Seiji MiyaguchiSunami

Haruko SugimuraItsuki's stepmother

Ichirō NakataniTaisuke (Itskuki's brother)

Yoshio InabaToyoshima

Sue Mitobe

Sue MitobeItsuki family's maid