The Fossil

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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  Shin Saburi

  Tajihei Itsuki
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  Keiko Kishi

  Madame Marcelin
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  Hisashi Igawa

  Funazu
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  Mayumi Ogawa

  Akiko Itsuki
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  Komaki Kurihara

  Kiyoko Itsuki
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  Kei Yamamoto

  Akihiko Kishi
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  Orie Satō

  Kishi's wife
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  Seiji Miyaguchi

  Sunami
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  Haruko Sugimura

  Itsuki's stepmother
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  Ichirō Nakatani

  Taisuke (Itskuki's brother)