JAPAN · 1975
The Fossil
Japanese Golden Age
mortality and death
terminal illness
existential crisis
chance encounter
spiritual pilgrimage
Synopsis
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 pe
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