The read
A Balasaur Score of 80 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 86%. Scores higher than 80% of the 813 1960s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
296 audience votes
Key crew
- Hiroshi TeshigaharaDirector
- Kōbō AbeScreenplay
- Tōru TakemitsuOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Tatsuya NakadaiMr. Okuyama
- Mikijiro HiraDr. Hori
- Machiko KyōMrs. Okuyama
- Kyôko KishidaNurse
- Eiji OkadaThe Boss
- Miki IrieScarred Girl
- Kakuya SaekiElder Brother of Scarred Girl
- Minoru ChiakiApartment Superintendent
- Etsuko IchiharaYoko
- Hisashi IgawaMan with Mole
- Hideo KanzeMale Patient
- Kunie TanakaMentally Ill Man #1
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Themes
maskjapandual identitybased on novel or bookidentity crisisblack and whitejapanese new waveexperimental surgeryscience experiment
The Best Movies of 1966
The Face of Another is #13 of 60
