The Face of Another | Tanin no Kao

One of the most prominent figures in Japanese cinema, Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Face of Another, discusses the life of a man named Okuyama, whose face was unrecognizable as a result of an accident. The fact that a psychiatrist who has serious work on aesthetic surgery and who conducts this in a secrecy, is a mask that is almost impossible to distinguish from the real face of Okuyama, and that this character changes the character of our character to a certain extent makes it possible to open the film to science fiction. The relationship of the scientist's work (the face he created) coincides with the definition of The Face of Another science fiction, when we think about the psychic dilemmas and the transformation of the new creation.

Director Teshigahara, emphasizing that our face is a door to our souls, says losing him means losing our identity so that the individual can alienate him and make himself abstract from society. Emphasizing the hypocrisy of humankind as well as the question of whether or not losing our faces will change our emotions and personality, the film brings a wounded girl to the side in the second part. Teshigahara, thus After the World War II, the social identity of the country is on the table. Kobe has transformed Abe's psychological analyzes and highly solid text into a classic of The Face of Another, with Teshigahara's directing skills and flawless cinematography.