TV Show Details
Air Date:January 31st, 1972
Last Air Date:March 20th, 1972
Network:Fuji TV
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama
Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Haiyuza Theater Company, Yonki-no-Kai Productions
TV Show Tags:
terminal cancer
Fossil (1972)
TV ShowFuji TV
Miniseries
Plot
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 imagined mortality continues, he actually meets the living woman who is 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 which profoundly test the lessons he has learned.