The Face of Another
It’s always lonely being free.
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.
Drama
Science Fiction
7.8
278 reviewsRuntime: 122 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 1966-07-15
Director(s): Hiroshi Teshigahara
Production: Teshigahara Productions, Tokyo Eiga
Languages: German, Japanese
IMDB: tt0061065
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badelf★ 7/101/13/2024
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.