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The Face of Another (Japanese: 他人の顔, Hepburn: Tanín no Kao) is a 1966 Japanese New Wave film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on the 1964 novel of the same name written by Kōbō Abe.
The Face of Another: Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. With Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijirô Hira, Kyôko Kishida, Miki Irie. A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
The Face of Another (Japanese: 他人の顔, Hepburn: Tanin no kao) is a 1964 novel written by the Japanese novelist Kōbō Abe. Like other stories written by this author, the novel explores the alienation of modern man from urban society.
Mar 13, 2021 · The Face of Another (1966) by. Hiroshi Teshigahara. Publication date. 1966. Topics. film, cinema, japanese cinema, movie. Language. Japanese.
Okuyama (Yojimbo's Tatsuya Nakadai), after being burned and disfigured in an industrial accident and estranged from his family and friends, agrees to his psychiatrist's radical experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger.
A scientist damages his face in a chemical accident and, feeling spurned by his wife, retreats into solitude to wrangle with his newfound crisis of identity. How much does a face define who we are, both to ourselves and to others we love or do not even know.
The Face of Another. After an explosion disfigures a man, a lifelike mask gives him freedom, but with it comes a change of personality.
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The Face of Another. Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara • 1966 • Japan. Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyo, Mikijiro Hira. A staggering work of existential science fiction, THE FACE OF ANOTHER dissects identity with the sure hand of a surgeon.
Feb 4, 2003 · by Kobo Abe (Author) 4.3 144 ratings. See all formats and editions. Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world.
The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable.
