The Fossil / 1975

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.

The Petrified Forest / 1973

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.

Kaseki no Hohoemi / 2015

Miyahara Kazuya has a phobia of touching dirty things and people because of being bullied during his elementary days. One day, he meets an old woman named Sachiko, who is digging the ground. Sachiko mistakes him as her dead husband, Tadanobu. To his surprise, he discovered that the old lady is the grandmother of Nakamura Ayami, the girl he has a secret crush on.

Fossilized Wilderness / 1982

The Last Documentary Fossil / 2018

In 2118 an alien named X surveys the Earth in his flying saucer. In this wasteland, where humans have long become extinct due to heavy pollution, he finds a bunch of rotting ‘image fossils’ (old, discarded films). X is puzzled by these images: Why are they building a machine that belches smoke? Why are there ribbon-cutting ceremonies? This is a sci-fi film in an alternate style.

Summer of Fossil Leaves / 2014

While at the riverbank looking for fossils, Rintarou meets a boy named Toshi, and their days of adventure begins.

This Boy Suffers from Crystallization / 2014

The story revolves around high school boy Ayumu Tamari, who has an illness that makes him start to turn to stone when he's stressed. Since he couldn't fit in with his class, after repeating a year, he declared that he wanted to have a "Sparkly youth" as well. To do this, he changed his hair and clothes to be more fashionable, and constantly checked for popular topics to stay in the know. In the midst of Ayumu's life of making a facade, his homeroom teacher and stone-loving geology teacher Kouya Onihara says that Ayumu's stone transformation is beautiful. Ayumu begins to become attracted to Kouya, who starts to give him advice.

红楼梦第六部：宝玉化石 / 1989

La foresta pietrificata / 19366.913 voti

Alan Squier, uno scrittore di passaggio, e Duke Mantee, un gangster in fuga, s'incontrano in una stazione di servizio nel deserto dell'Arizona. Alan, disgustato da un mondo che non ha spazio per l'arte, chiede a Duke di ucciderlo. Quasi un'opera di carità, visto che lo scrittore ha appena firmato una polizza d'assicurazione a favore della cameriera del bar, di cui si è innamorato, che vuole andare a studiare a Parigi.

The Incredible Petrified World / 1959

When the cable breaks on their diving bell four people find themselves trapped in a hidden underwater world.