
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.
- 7.8
- 1966
- Released
- 2h 2m

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
Mie Anso
Female Patient
Itomi Rei
Stabbed Woman
Yuriko Abe
Doctor's Wife
Shinobu Itomi

Released
ja
- #mask
- #japan
- #dual identity
- #based on novel or book
- #identity crisis
- #black and white
- #japanese new wave
- #experimental surgery
- #science experiment
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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 & ide











