Tatsuya Nakadai, Miki Irie, Mikijiro Hira
A businessman facially scarred in a laboratory fire receives psychotherapy from a psychiatrist, and obtains an amazingly lifelike mask from the doctor. Soon after being fitted for the mask, he seduces...( read more
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Stats: 95 reviews
what a brilliant film. entrenched in philosophy, the dialogue in the film and the films entire concept were incredibly profound and thought provoking. nakadai put in a great performance as always and the images produced through some great cinematography were perfect for creatin...( read more)
interesting kafkaesque premise. It's never good though for a film to have heavyhanded conversations about its ideas and themes instead of illustrating them.
A highly stylized, psychologically dense, and provocative analysis on identity, persona, freedom, and intimacy. The film asks, "If no one knew who you were, what kind of mischief would you get into?" What would happen to society if we were all anonymous?
A must see for love...( read more)
This movie is rather...strange. Quite strange. Hard to categorize - part psychodrama, part thriller, part new wave, and not really any of those. Moves slowly but I was kept occupied (I kept thinking the psychiatrist/maskmaker had an ulterior motive), but an unrelated sideplot ...( read more)
Another incredible adaptation of a Kobo Abe novel by the amazing Hiroshi Teshigahara. Having just finished the novel, I might even go as far as to say the movie was better. The addition of the doctor was an ingenius one and the filmmaking is simply fantastic. Every shot could ...( read more)
With a new face, Tatsuya Nakadai just looked like a Japanese Abe Lincoln.
Surrealistic and very philosophical. It's a great movie though the pace is a bit too slow.
like johnny handsome, except not amazing. fuck, why is that movie is so good? Oh because it's a bank heist revenge thriller starring the elephant man, that's why. In this movie though, when the deformed guy gets a new face he just wants to seduce his wife, to basically trick her ...( read more)
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