Tatsuya Nakadai
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A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
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| Release Date | 1966-07-15 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 2h 4m |
| Directors | Hiroshi Teshigahara, Hiroshi Segawa, Mitsuo Kume |
| Producers | Nobuyo Horiba, Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Ôno |
| Writers | Kōbō Abe, Kōbō Abe |
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.
— badelf