Tatsuya Nakadai,
Machiko Kyo,
Kyoko Kishida,
Eiji Okada,
Mikijiro Hira
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Bearing traces of both Frankenstein and the 1959 Georges Franju horror classic Eyes without a Face, the Japanese The Face of Another is a disturbing Japanese drama featuring Tatsuya Nakadai. His face ... read more
DVD Release Date: July 10, 2007
Stats: 122 reviews
This is a film that crawls around inside your head long after the credits have rolled and the lights have come back on. A person could spend hours analyzing and dissecting the symbolism and social commentary.
what a brilliant film. entrenched in philosophy, the dialogue in the film and the films entire concept were incredibly profound and thought provoking. nakadai put in a great performance as always and the images produced through some great cinematography were perfect for creatin... read more
A man with a burned face teeters on the brink of madness, torturing himself and his wife with his daily obsessions over appearance and how people are looking at him. He goes to his psychiatrist friend who also happens to be an expert in prosthetics, and is given a lifelike mask ... read more
A highly stylized, psychologically dense, and provocative analysis on identity, persona, freedom, and intimacy. The film asks, "If no one knew who you were, what kind of mischief would you get into?" What would happen to society if we were all anonymous?
A must see for love... read more
This movie is rather...strange. Quite strange. Hard to categorize - part psychodrama, part thriller, part new wave, and not really any of those. Moves slowly but I was kept occupied (I kept thinking the psychiatrist/maskmaker had an ulterior motive), but an unrelated sideplot ... read more
Another incredible adaptation of a Kobo Abe novel by the amazing Hiroshi Teshigahara. Having just finished the novel, I might even go as far as to say the movie was better. The addition of the doctor was an ingenius one and the filmmaking is simply fantastic. Every shot could ... read more
interesting kafkaesque premise. It's never good though for a film to have heavyhanded conversations about its ideas and themes instead of illustrating them.
like johnny handsome, except not amazing. fuck, why is that movie is so good? Oh because it's a bank heist revenge thriller starring the elephant man, that's why. In this movie though, when the deformed guy gets a new face he just wants to seduce his wife, to basically trick her ... read more
By the time the movie is over you'll want to rush to a mirror to spend a few minutes staring at yourself. Full Review
masks the uneasy rebirth of a nation behind its story of personal transformation Full Review
I watched Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Face of Another and read about it and thought about it, yet ultimately failed to connect with it. Full Review
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