Face

Masako is awkward and withdrawn, and after her mother’s death the humiliation and anger she has stored up comes out at once and she kills her sister. What follows is a life on the run: she moves from city to city, finds work, changes her name and builds herself among strangers. The film begins as a crime story and turns into the story of a woman finding her own face, which is what the title says. Junji Sakamoto directed and wrote it with Isamu Uno, and was named best director at the twenty-fourth Japan Academy Prize. Naomi Fujiyama plays Masako and won best actress for it at the Hochi and Yokohama film awards. Etsushi Toyokawa and Koichi Sato are also in the cast.