The Face of Another (film)
The Face of Another , Tanin no kao? is a 1966 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara and based on the novel of the same name written by Kb Abe. The story follows an engineer, Okuyama, whose face is severely burnt in an unspecified workrelated accident and is given a new face in the form of a lifelike mask.
Hira and Okuyama pay a man 10,000 yen to serve as the model for the mask, and the mask is built and fitted onto Okuyama. Hira cautions Okuyama that the mask may change his behavior and personality so much that he will cease to be the same person that he was. Hira believes that this disassociation with his identity will cause Okuyama to lose his sense of morality if he is not careful.Okuyama tells no one that he has received the mask, and simply lives as a new man, telling his wife that he is traveling on business while he rents an apartment nearby. He decides to seduce his wife, and does so with surprising ease. Afterwards he confronts his wife, angry that she had so readily been unfaithful to him, and she tells him that she knew all along that it was him. She assumed that he had devised the scenario as a masquerade which would rekindle their marriage. ........
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