The Face of Another
It’s always lonely being free.
DramaScience Fictionmaskjapandual identitybased on novel or bookidentity crisisblack and whitejapanese new waveexperimental surgeryscience experiment
A cerebral, formally experimental meditation on identity and alienation in which a man's artificial mask becomes a vehicle for exploring the fragmentation of the self.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
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
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