化石
/
Les Fossiles
/
Kaseki
director:
Masaki Kobayashi
playwright:
Shun Inagaki
/
井上靖
/
Takeshi Yoshida
actor:
Shin Saburi
/
Mayumi Ogawa
/
Keiko Kishi
/
Komaki Kurihara
/
Haruko Sugimura
…
genre:
Drama
region:
Japan
language:
Japanese
length: 3h 20m
release date: 1975-10-04
IMDb: tt0135496
化石
Overview
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.