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.
Cast
Shin Saburi
Tajihei Itsuki
Keiko Kishi
Madame Marcelin
Gō Katō
Narrator
Hisashi Igawa
Funazu
Mayumi Ogawa
Akiko Itsuki
Komaki Kurihara
Kiyoko Itsuki
Kei Yamamoto
Akihiko Kishi
Orie Satō
Kishi's wife
Seiji Miyaguchi
Sunami
Haruko Sugimura
Itsuki's stepmother
Ichirō Nakatani
Taisuke (Itskuki's brother), Taisuke, Tajihei's brother
Yoshio Inaba
Toyoshima
Sue Mitobe
Itsuki family's maid
Jūkichi Uno
Tappei Yakubi, Tappei Yabuki
Shigeru Kōyama
Dr. Kihara
Tetsuo Hasegawa
Akiko's husband
Yūsuke Takita
Unknown
Kei Yamamoto
Akihiko Kishi
Crew
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