The Fossil

1975, drama

200 minutes

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...

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Cast

Shin Saburi

Shin Saburi

Tajihei Itsuki

Keiko Kishi

Keiko Kishi

Madame Marcelin

Gō Katō

Gō Katō

Narrator

Hisashi Igawa

Hisashi Igawa

Funazu

Mayumi Ogawa

Mayumi Ogawa

Akiko Itsuki

Komaki Kurihara

Kiyoko Itsuki

Kei Yamamoto

Kei Yamamoto

Akihiko Kishi

Orie Satô

Kishi's wife

Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura

Itsuki's stepmother

Ichirō Nakatani

Ichirō Nakatani

Taisuke (Itskuki's brother), Taisuke, Tajihei's brother

Yoshio Inaba

Yoshio Inaba

Toyoshima

Sue Mitobe

Itsuki family's maid

Jūkichi Uno

Jūkichi Uno

Tappei Yakubi, Tappei Yabuki

Shigeru Kōyama

Shigeru Kōyama

Dr. Kihara

Tetsuo Hasegawa

Akiko's husband

Kei Yamamoto

Akihiko Kishi

Crew

Crew

Directing

Masaki Kobayashi

Masaki Kobayashi

Director

Editing

Production

Masayuki Satô

Producer

Sound

Writing

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