The Face of Another
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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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badelf
★ 7/10 Jan 13, 2024

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.

Keywords

maskjapandual identitybased on novel or bookidentity crisisblack and whitejapanese new waveexperimental surgeryscience experiment

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