The Face of Another 1966 Japanese B2 Poster
This is a Japanese B2 Poster (20.3" x 28.7") for the 1966 film The Face of Another(Japanese: 他人の顔, Hepburn: Tanin no Kao). Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, the film is a prominent work of the Japanese New Wave and is based on the 1964 novel by Kōbō Abe. The story follows engineer Okuyama, who suffers severe facial burns in a work-related accident and is given a new face in the form of a lifelike mask.
One recurring image is the large and small severed ears which appear in the scenery in several scenes. These ears were designed and sculpted by Japanese sculptor Tomio Miki.[4]
Hira's office, a strange blank space with glass partitions, was designed by architect Arata Isozaki, a friend of Teshigahara's.[4] The glass walls are painted with Langer's lines and Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.
The film uses several doublings of shots, both by repeating shots verbatim and by placing the main character in nearly identical shots twice. The most obvious example is in Okuyama's two separate rentals of apartments, once masked, and once with his new face. These doublings highlight Okuyama's double existence.