15 Jul 1966
The Face of Another
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Ikiru
A big story of a little man which will grip your soul...
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Top Billed Cast
志村喬 Kanji Watanabe
田中春男 Sakai
金子信雄 Mitsuo, son of Kanji
左卜全 Ohara
小田切みき Toyo
日守新一 Kimura
千秋実 Noguchi
山田巳之助 Subordinate Clerk Saito
藤原釜足 Sub-Section Chief Ono
小堀誠 Kiichi Watanabe, Kanji's Brother
中村伸郎 Deputy Mayor
渡辺篤 Patient
木村功 Intern
清水将夫 Doctor
伊藤雄之助 Novelist
南美江 The Maid
浦辺粂子 Tatsu Watanabe
三好栄子 Housewife
本間文子 Housewife
丹阿弥谷津子 Bar Hostess
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