A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Mr. Okuyama
Dr. Hori
Mrs. Okuyama
Nurse
The Boss
Scarred Girl
Apartment Superintendent
Yoko
Man with Mole
Male Patient
Mentally Ill Man #1
Mentally Ill Man #2
Secretary
Old Lady
Singer in Bar
Man in the Bar
Man Smoking in Bar (uncredited)
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.
July 15, 1966
Mr. Okuyama
Dr. Hori
Mrs. Okuyama
Nurse
The Boss
Scarred Girl
Apartment Superintendent
Yoko
Man with Mole
Male Patient
Mentally Ill Man #1
Mentally Ill Man #2
Secretary
Old Lady
Singer in Bar
Man in the Bar
Man Smoking in Bar (uncredited)
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.