Face (2000 film)

Won: Best Film
Won: Best Actress - Naomi Fujiyama

Face
Face
	Japanese film poster.
Directed by	Junji Sakamoto
Written by	Junji Sakamoto; Isamu Uno
Starring	Naomi Fujiyama; Etsushi Toyokawa; Kōichi Satō
Music by	Yasuhiro Kobayashi
Release date	12 September 2000;
Running time	123 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Face (顔, Kao) is a 2000 Japanese film directed by Junji Sakamoto. At the 24th Japan Academy Prize, it won one award and received four other nominations.

Plot

Sullen and withdrawn "ugly" elder sister Masako toils endlessly with mending chores in her widowed mother's dry cleaning shop, seething with hatred for her flashy younger sister Yukari, who visits only for free laundry service. When their mother dies, and Yukari persists in her abuse, Masako cracks and strangles her. She flees and takes a number of identities and odd jobs, meeting people as she goes. To her surprise, Masako finds people in general to be kind and helpful (although she's sexually abused more than once), and she blossoms as a person, even to the extent of becoming a popularly liked bar hostess like her murdered sister.