Facially scarred in a fire a businessman (Nakadai) receives psychotherapy and an amazingly lifelike mask. However he finds it difficult to re-integrate into society and discovers that his personal habits are changing. Is the mask controlling him or did he create the new personality of the mask? Director Hiroshi Teshigahara teamed up once more with screenwriter and novelist Kobo Abe and experimental composer Toru Takemitsu following their collaboration on the seminal 'Sunna No Onna'
Hiroshi Teshigahara's "The Face of Another" is a visually beautiful and poetically shot film. It follows the plight of a facially disfigured man who finds himself fleeing into a state of self-concealment by means of a prosthetic face provided by his ethically dubious psychiatrist. Rather than concentrate on the aesthetics of facial appearance the film concerns itself with the dark and existential nature of man-in-society, who are we really...? A Classic of Japanese cinema.
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