The Face of Another

The Face of Another

  • Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
  • Countries of origin: Japan
  • Language: Japanese, German
  • Release date: June 9, 1967
  • Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.33 : 1
  • Also known as: I Have a Stranger's Face
  • "Tanin no kao" is a science fiction film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara , written byあべこうぼうand starring Tatsuya Nakadai , and was released in Japan on July 15, 1966 .   

    Details

    • Release date June 9, 1967
    • Filming locations Train Station, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
    • Production companies Teshigahara Productions, Tokyo Eiga Co Ltd.

    Box office

    Gross worldwide

    $35,185

    Movie reviews

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    • By Erwin 2022-12-28 18:38:48

      A "carnival" kidnapped by masks

      I still remember how I found out about this movie, a holiday of doing nothing, borrowing a bunch of Japanese movie discs from friends, trying to get into the gates of old Japanese movies. A friend brought me some very traditional Japanese video discs, Toho Toei Daiying Shochiku, Suzuki Kiyoshun Kurosawa Akimura Shohei Kobayashi Masaki, and there are such weird things in them. On the cover, a bandaged geek intertwined with textures, gloomy and dead, I took a fancy to it at a glance and took...

    • By Chaim 2022-12-25 14:56:31

      "The Face of Others" Theme Song Lyrics and Translation

      Music: Toru Takemitsu Lyrics: Tatsuji Iwabuchi Vocals: Maeda Mibori

      Ich schaue dir ins Gesicht, das vor mir steht, doch erkenn' ich dich nicht mehr. Wo bist du? Wo bist du, von gestern, du?

      Einst im Nebel, sah ich dich so, wie hinter milch'gen Glas gestellt. Du warst mir nah, und doch weit entfernt.

      Einst im Mondschein, sahst du grad' aus, wie in gläserne Haut gesteckt. Du warst mir gut, doch entfremdet.

    • By Kayli 2022-12-23 11:01:51

      Don't wear a mask, are you still a person?

      Okuyama is thorough, the face is the door to the soul, and rejecting a face is actually a rejection of the soul behind the face. No one accepts a terrifying face as easily as a handsome face, and those outward acceptances are moral rather than genuine.

      "Would you like to help me do an experiment?" Okuyama kept asking for proof that he would definitely be rejected. The wife said that it was not others who rejected you, but you closed the door on your own. So he pleaded with his wife...

    • By Winifred 2022-12-14 13:16:58

      "The Face of Others": A feast of human nature or the flowers of a sacrificial ceremony, bright and complex

      "The mask will completely destroy the morals of all human beings, names, status, occupations... All these labels will no longer matter, and they will all feel strange to each other. It will be natural to be alone, and there will be no need to feel guilty about it." - "The Face of Others"

      How to face and experience the spiritual dictatorship in the era of not taking dreams as horses.

      Okuyama, disfigured in an accident, accepts a doctor's proposal to change his face, and he...

    • By Angie 2022-11-23 13:31:03

      True loneliness, false freedom!

      Each character is deeply involved in positive and negative arguments, positive truth (loneliness), and reverse hypocrisy (freedom). Under the pain of disfigurement (a man and a woman, a husband and a woman with a disfigured half of his face), there is a "self" destroyed by his face, while under the intact face (a woman and a man, a wife and a doctor), there is a "self" that is swallowed up by hypocrisy self". Under the face of (husband) that covers up flaws, there is a kind of fantasy...

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    • By Allan 2023-08-21 15:03:44

      The face is born from the heart, but if you change your face, will you not be constrained by your identity, status and being yourself, will your heart also change? To know yourself is to know the self under the...

    • By Jillian 2023-07-31 00:40:14

      From "Sand Girl" to "The Face of Others", Edict Kawara Hiroshi has well expressed the externality of Abe's public housing, especially filling in the weak plot outside the psychological descriptions that are abundantly presented in the form of notes in "The Face of Others" pioneer image. It is a pity that some of the more hidden textual elements of the Abe public housing cannot be reproduced. Perhaps this is the reason why Hiroshi Kawahara gave up "Box...

    • By Cristobal 2023-07-27 21:32:45

      The asymptotic of trend and fashion, the convergence of aesthetics and fashion, from subway to scenic spots, from restaurants to bookstores, every time I look at a bm on the left, a jk on the right, a aj in the front, a Gshock in the back, and wear similar clothes. , the same makeup, the same pose, the same laugh, imagine them, you posted the same circle of friends and the same people hypocritically interacting with me, I brought a filter in my heart to watch: wearing a human skin mask clown in...

    • By Ferne 2023-07-21 12:16:10

      In love, we all try to unmask each other, so I guess we should try to put on a...

    • By Gaston 2023-07-06 21:45:21

      It's actually the same year as "Masquerade" and "Second...

    Movie plot

    Okuyama suffered severe burns to his entire face in an accident, and at the same time lost his relationships with his wife and others. From the indifference of his wife, Okuyama deeply felt that he had lost the most precious thing in the world. Thinking of revenge, he decided to change his face to look like another person to seduce his wife. A neurologist at a hospital was very interested in his mask experiment and decided to meet his...
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    Background creation

    The film seems a bit esoteric and metaphysical, but in fact, those common and small things can reveal the essence of things and the psychological activities hidden behind ordinary phenomena. We can feel that what the film is really trying to say is that most people in real life live in masks, and that has become a sad habit, maybe even a weapon. I don't know if a person will be shocked when he suddenly finds that when he uses a mask in...
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    Movie quotes

    • [first lines]

      Psychiatrist: Recognize these? You know what they are? You don't, do you?

    • Psychiatrist: Sadly, this is not only a finger. It's an inferiority complex in the shape of a finger. It's not that I specialize in treating fingers. I'm a psychiatrist, in fact. Inferiority complexes dig holes in the psyche, and I fill them in.

    • Mr. Okuyama: I wonder if losing one's face deranges one's senses.