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Tanin no kao
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Writers:
Kôbô Abe (screenplay)
Kôbô Abe (novel)
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Release Date:
9 June 1967 (USA) See more »
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A businessman facially scarred in a laboratory fire receives psychotherapy from a psychiatrist, and obtains an amazingly lifelike mask from the doctor... See more » | Add synopsis »
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Dark and morbid but wholly enthralling See more (20 total) »

Cast

  (in credits order)

Tatsuya Nakadai ... Mr. Okuyama
Mikijirô Hira ... Psychiatrist

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
Machiko Kyô ... Mrs. Okuyama
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Shinobu Itomi
Tôru Takemitsu ... Man Smoking in Bar (uncredited)
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Directed by
Hiroshi Teshigahara 
 
Writing credits
Kôbô Abe (screenplay)

Kôbô Abe (novel)

Produced by
Nobuyo Horiba .... producer
Kiichi Ichikawa .... producer
Tadashi Ôno .... producer
 
Original Music by
Tôru Takemitsu 
 
Cinematography by
Hiroshi Segawa 
 
Film Editing by
Yoshi Sugihara 
 
Production Design by
Masao Yamazaki 
 
Art Direction by
Arata Isozaki 
Masao Yamazaki 
 
Set Decoration by
Kenichirô Yamamoto 
 
Costume Design by
Tamiko Moriya 
 
Makeup Department
Taichirô Akiyama .... masks
 
Production Management
Iwao Yoshida .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Hideo Nagasawa .... assistant director
Yutaka Osawa .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Tomio Miki .... modeling
 
Sound Department
Shigenosuke Okuyama .... sound
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Mitsuo Kume .... lighting technician
Yasuhiro Yoshioka .... still photographer
 
Other crew
Kiyoshi Awazu .... title designer
Eiko Yoshida .... archivist
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Tanin no kao" - Japan (original title)
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USA:124 min
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Psychiatrist:You're not the only lonely man. Being free always involves being lonely. Just there is a mask you can peel off and another you can not.See more »
Movie Connections:
References La Jetée (1962)See more »
Soundtrack:
WaltzSee more »

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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Dark and morbid but wholly enthralling, 13 November 2008
Author: Prof-Hieronymos-Grost from Ireland

After an industrial accident that leaves his face disfigured for life, Mr. Okuyama (Tatsuya Nakadai)begins to question the meaning of life and his own identity, should he keep working, will his disgusted wife ever sleep with him again. His psychotherapist offers him the chance to avail of an illegal medical practice that he has invented, it's a mask moulded from the face of another, that Okuyama can wear to live life a little more normally. The mask gives him a new lease of life, but his therapist warns him that the mask could take over and influence him to do evil things. As the mask takes control Okuyama can't resist but to give in to his baser instincts, his main plan being, to seduce own wife, that he believes may be cheating on him anyway. With thematic echoes of Franju's Les Yeux sans visage and even Delmer Daves Dark Passage, Teshigahara delivers his expressionistic adaptation of Kôbô Abe's novel with style, the results being a dark and epic tale that will haunt its viewers. Its full of inventive visuals and clever tricks with sound, which along with Tôru Takemitsu's superb score contribute wonderfully to the theme of how fragile identity really is and how the masks we all wear hide our true beings and souls. There's also a secondary story of an unnamed facially deformed girl, who is also struggling to cope with her disfigurements and her tragedy is equally moving.

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