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
Overview
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.
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Release date
15/07/1966
Votes
291
Popularity
2.5
Tatsuya Nakadai
Mr. Okuyama
Mikijiro Hira
Dr. Hori
Machiko Kyō
Mrs. Okuyama
Kyôko Kishida
Nurse
Eiji Okada
The Boss
Miki Irie
Scarred Girl
Kakuya Saeki
Elder Brother of Scarred Girl
Minoru Chiaki
Apartment Superintendent
Etsuko Ichihara
Yoko
Hisashi Igawa
Man with Mole
Hideo Kanze
Male Patient
Kunie Tanaka
Mentally Ill Man #1
Sen Yano
Mentally Ill Man #2
Eiko Muramatsu
Secretary
Yoshie Minami
Old Lady
Bibari Maeda
Singer in Bar
Robert Dunham
Man in the Bar
Toru Takemitsu
Man Smoking in Bar (uncredited)
Mie Anso
Female Patient
Itomi Rei
Stabbed Woman
Yuriko Abe
Doctor's Wife
Shinobu Itomi
Shinji Kubo
Pickup artist
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