Tanin no kao
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
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"This is a film that has to be rescued for all moviegoers. I saw "The Face of Another" (Tanin no kao) at the National Gallery of Art's series, "A New Wave in Japan: 1955-1974," and was mesmerized by this "elegantly spooky and enigmatic examination of identity." This is the third of four Hiroshi Teshigahara (director)/Kobo Abe (writer)/ Toru Takemistu (composer) collaborations. They have reached nearly the same perfection in the fusion of image, sound, and subject in this work as in their brilliant work, "Woman in the Dunes." A businessman (Tatsuya ..."
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Director Hiroshi Teshigahara said that he intended the film to explore both personal and cultural identities. While the examination of personal identity is quite overt, Teshigahara also explored how Japan's cultural identity had been impacted by World War II and its aftermath.
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A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.