The Face of Another

An existential science fiction film based on the screenplay by renowned Japanese avant-gardist Kobo Abe, about a disfigured chemist named Okuyama who undergoes a failed experiment. Literally losing his face, Mr. Okuyama agrees to a radical experiment proposed by his psychiatrist: a face transplant created from a mold of a stranger. Now he is a different person, free from his past life, from his own wife and friends, finally free from himself.