The Face of Another (1966)
Tanin no kao (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Tatsuya Nakadai	...	Mr. Okuyama
	Mikijiro Hira	...	Psychiatrist (as Mikijirô Hira)
	Kyôko Kishida	...	Nurse
	Miki Irie	...	Girl with Scar
	Eiji Okada	...	The Boss
	Minoru Chiaki	...	Apartment Superintendent
	Hideo Kanze	...	Male Patient
	Kunie Tanaka	...	Patient at Mental Hospital
	Etsuko Ichihara	...	Yo-Yo Girl
	Eiko Muramatsu	...	Secretary
	Yoshie Minami	...	Old Lady
	Hisashi Igawa	...	Man with Mole
	Kakuya Saeki	...	Elder Brother of Girl with Scar
	Sen Yano	...	Mentally Ill Man A
	Bibari Maeda	...	Singer in Bar

Storyline

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 his wife and succeeds. But his wife claims she was aware all along who he was and believed that both were just masquerading together as most couples usually do in different ways. Strangely enough, his personality seemingly begins to change after he puts on the mask as if the mask has influenced his personality. His new identity does not enable him to reintegrate into society after all. A subplot is inserted in fragments. A good-natured young woman, the right side of whose face is disfigured, has been hurt by others' inquisitive eyes and insults, and has been shunned by men. She asks her older brother, the only man who understands her pain and solitude, to make love to her, hiding from him the intent of killing herself after then. Written by Prion  

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