Following Woman Of The Dunes (Suna no onna) in 1964, Hiroshi Teshigahara continued his collaboration with avant-garde novelist/playwright Kobo Abe and experimental composer Toru Takemitsu for The Face of Another [Tanin no kao]. Starring Tatsuya Nakadai (Yojimbo, Kagemusha) as a man `buried alive behind eyes without a face`, the film addresses the illusive nature of identity and the agony of its absence.A man (Nakadai) facially disfigured in a laboratory fire persuades his doctor to fashion him a lifelike mask modeled on a complete stranger — totally different from his own face. Shortly after the mask is made, he successfully seduces his own wife (Machiko Kyo) but becomes angry at her falling for a handsome stranger. Worrying about his looks, and the way the mask seems to influence his identity, he begins to question everything.
Takemitsu`s musical score is one of his best, contrasting sweet, sad melodies with eerie, experimental motifs. Alongside Franju`s Les Yeux sans visage [Eyes Without a Face], Mamoulian`s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Whale`s Frankenstein, and Freund`s Mad Love, Teshigahara and Abe`s The Face of Another stands proud as one of cinema`s most haunting explorations of identity.
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