The Face of Another (1966)
2h 2m | PG-13
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Studio: Teshigahara Productions
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Video: 720p
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai
as Mr. Okuyama
Mikijiro Hira
as Dr. Hori
Machiko Kyō
as Mrs. Okuyama
Kyôko Kishida
as Nurse
Eiji Okada
as The Boss
Miki Irie
as Scarred Girl
Reviews
This is difficult because I expected to like this movie much more than I did. There is a lot of creativity in it, starting with the premise itself. The photography and sometimes other-wordly sets also impressed me. What disappointed me was the absence of a communicated clear vision. At the end, I didn't know what I had seen or how I felt about it. I wasn't sure if the story was about mask & identity, or about cultural monster labels and prejudice, or about the aftermath of Nagasaki/Hiroshima bombing, or about love and the lack of it.