The Face of Another

About The Face of Another

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.

Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Face of Another is a 1966 science fiction film. At 122 minutes long, it arrived in July 1966.

The film is filed under mask, identity crisis, dual identity, and japanese new wave. The story is adapted from a novel.

Tatsuya Nakadai appears as Mr. Okuyama, Mikijiro Hira as Dr. Hori, Machiko Kyō as Mrs. Okuyama, and Kyôko Kishida as Nurse. The screenplay is by Kōbō Abe. In the United States it streams on Criterion Channel.

Throne of Blood, Ugetsu, and Woman in the Dunes make useful companions to The Face of Another, all filed under black and white and japan. TMDB voters put it at 7.8 out of 10 across 300 votes and it carries a NR rating.