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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.
Status
Released

Tatsuya Nakadai
Mr. Okuyama

Mikijiro Hira
Dr. Hori

Machiko Kyō
Mrs. Okuyama

Kyôko Kishida
Nurse

Eiji Okada
The Boss

Miki Irie
Scarred Girl
This is difficult because I expected to like this movie much more than I did. There is a lot of creativity in it, starting with the premise itself. The photography and sometimes other-wordly sets also impressed me. What disappointed me was the absence of a communicated clear vision. At the end, I didn't know what I had seen or how I felt about it. I wasn't sure if the story was about mask & identity, or about cultural monster labels and prejudice, or about the aftermath of Nagasaki/Hiroshima bombing, or about love and the lack of it.
Kakuya Saeki
Elder Brother of Scarred Girl

Minoru Chiaki
Apartment Superintendent