Rating:
7.8/10 by 248 users
The Face of Another (1966)
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Directing:
- Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Kōbō Abe
- Kōbō Abe
Release Date:
Fri, Jul 15, 1966
Rating: 7.8/10 by 248 users
Alternative Title:
The Face of Another - US
La cara de otro - ES
Tanin no kao - JP
Tvář toho druhého - CZ
Le visage d'un autre - FR
The Face of Another - DE
Het Gezicht van een Ander - NL
Il volto di un altro - IT
Twarz innego - PL
타인의 얼굴 - KR
Το Πρόσωπο του Άλλου - GR
Το Πρόσωπο Ενός Άλλου - GR
Country:
Japan
Language:
Deutsch
日本語
Runtime: 02 hour 04 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: japan, based on novel or book, identity crisis, japanese new wave
Rating: 7.8/10 by 248 users
Alternative Title:
The Face of Another - US
La cara de otro - ES
Tanin no kao - JP
Tvář toho druhého - CZ
Le visage d'un autre - FR
The Face of Another - DE
Het Gezicht van een Ander - NL
Il volto di un altro - IT
Twarz innego - PL
타인의 얼굴 - KR
Το Πρόσωπο του Άλλου - GR
Το Πρόσωπο Ενός Άλλου - GR
Country:
Japan
Language:
Deutsch
日本語
Runtime: 02 hour 04 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: japan, based on novel or book, identity crisis, japanese new wave
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
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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