The Face of Another

Teshigahara Productions

Drama Science Fiction
124 min     7.8     1966     Japan

Overview

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Reviews

badelf wrote:
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.

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