The Fossil

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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.

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Creators

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Masaki Kobayashi

director

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Shun Inagaki

writer

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Takeshi Yoshida

writer

Yasushi Inoue

writer

Cast

Shin Saburi actor

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Keiko Kishi actor Gō Katō actor

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Hisashi Igawa actor

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Mayumi Ogawa actor

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Komaki Kurihara actor Kei Yamamoto actor

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Orie Satō actor Seiji Miyaguchi actor

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Haruko Sugimura actor

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Ichirō Nakatani actor

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Yoshio Inaba actor

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Sue Mitobe actor Jukichi Uno actor Shigeru Kōyama actor

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Tetsuo Hasegawa actor

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Yūsuke Takita actor