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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.

Year1966
CountryJapan
Cinematic Threads
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, among the most revered contemporary Japanese horror filmmakers, has referred to The Face of Another as 'the Japanese masterpiece that changed my life.'

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identity and self · appearance and perception · psychological transformation · alienation and isolation · duality of human nature