The Face of Another

The Face of Another
1966
★★★★☆ 7.8/10
⏱️ 122 min
📅 Released
🌐 JA
DramaScience Fiction
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.

Where to Watch (US)

Stream

Criterion Channel

User Reviews

badelf
★ 7/10
January 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.

Crew

Director
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Writer
Kōbō Abe
Producer
Nobuyo Horiba, Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Ôno

Production

Teshigahara Productions, Tokyo Eiga

Keywords

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