

It’s always lonely being free.
15/07/1966
Overview
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.
Teshigahara Productions

Tokyo Eiga

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061065
Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4517765
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Review by: badelf
Written by: badelf on 2024-01-13T00:13:13.042Z
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.