The Face of Another (Tanin no kao) (1966)

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"Many films made in postwar Japan cinema concerned themselves with the country’s identity crisis, specifically the role of the individual within a drastically changing society. Perhaps no film of the era articulated this more chillingly than Hiroshi Teshigahara’s The Face of Another, which finds the severely burnt (and slightly psychotic) Okuyama (Tatsuya Nakadai) acquiring and wearing a high-tech, lifelike mask to wear in order to stop sympathetic souls from feeling sorry for his Invisible M"

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Watched in 2017 From best to worst (Commented) (37 movies items)

"This was the first movie I watched last year. It's a shame I can't remember much of it but I guarantee you it'll drop your jaw. A visually stunning japanese film. A man loses his face, doctor gives him a new one ... "

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"Directed by: Hiroshi Teshigahara A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality. "

Movies Watched in 2017 (302 movies items)

"July 18th Directed by: Hiroshi Teshigahara"