The Face of Another: Based on a Novel by Kôbô Abe

When Mr. Okuyama's (Tatsuya Nakadai) face is horrifically disfigured in an industrial fire he finds himself questioning the values of one's own appearance, as day after day he coasts through life wearing a head wrapped in bandages. His home life has been almost ruined since his wife (Machi...

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Weitere Verfasser: Teshigahara, Hiroshi (RegisseurIn), Segawa, Hiroshi (Kameramann/frau), Nakadai, Tatsuya (SchauspielerIn), Hira, Mikijirô (SchauspielerIn), Kishida, Kyoko (SchauspielerIn)
Format: Video Software
Sprache:Undetermined
Veröffentlicht: [U.K.] Eureka Video 2005
Schriftenreihe:The Masters of Cinema Series 6
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Zusammenfassung:When Mr. Okuyama's (Tatsuya Nakadai) face is horrifically disfigured in an industrial fire he finds himself questioning the values of one's own appearance, as day after day he coasts through life wearing a head wrapped in bandages. His home life has been almost ruined since his wife (Machiko Kyo) shows little affection toward him, so one day while visiting his doctor (Mikijiro Hira) he asks if it is possible to get a new face, to which his doctor says yes but to do so would be against his beliefs. Still, the doctor is easily persuaded and out of his own curiosity he makes a synthetic face for Okuyama using the face of a stranger for its base. With this new mask Okuyama can walk freely with a new identity but with this mask comes important rules. What would you do with a new identity? ... "The Face of Another" is a highly engaging and artistic piece of work, opening with the x-rayed skull of Nakadai as he talks about his predicament, moving along to at times haunting shots behind closed doors, the kind of metaphors that lace the film throughout, to its final denouement which is as surreal as it is descriptive. Teshigahara makes his points and he makes them with style. [film.thedigitalfix.com]
Beschreibung:[DVD] (124 Min.) s/w mono