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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The Face of Another
"It’s always lonely being free."
1966 • 2h 2m • ★ 7.8 (276 votes) Released
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.
Director
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Screenplay
Kōbō Abe
Rating
7.8
Runtime
122 min
Production
Teshigahara Productions
Tokyo Eiga
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★ 7/10 • Jan 13, 2024
Keywords
maskjapandual identitybased on novel or bookidentity crisisblack and whitejapanese new waveexperimental surgeryscience experiment
















