Director: Michihito Fujii
When a rising model vanishes without a trace in France, the private investigator hired by her father finds himself circling a plastic surgery clinic whose secrets go far beyond a missing person's file.
What is Faceless about?
Barbara Hallen has built a modeling career on visibility, which makes her sudden disappearance all the more unsettling. Her father refuses to accept silence from the authorities and hires a private detective to pick up the trail in Paris, a city Barbara knew well but that now offers only cold leads and evasive answers. The investigation narrows toward a plastic surgery clinic overseen by Dr. Flamand, a facility that trades in reinvention and, it turns out, in far more dangerous transformations than its clients realize. Director Michihito Fujii, working outside his usual Japanese setting, builds tension through clinical, sterile visuals that make the clinic feel more like a trap than a place of healing. The film moves at a patient pace, letting dread accumulate through small details before tightening into a genuinely unsettling final stretch, and it treats the horror less as shock-driven spectacle than as a slow unraveling of identity and consent.
Cast & crew
Ryusei Yokohama takes on the role of the detective piecing together Barbara's final movements, playing the investigation with a controlled, watchful intensity. Riho Yoshioka and Shintaro Morimoto occupy key roles inside the world surrounding the clinic, while Anna Yamada and Takayuki Yamada round out a cast that keeps the mystery's stakes personal rather than abstract.
Context & significance
Michihito Fujii has moved fluidly between intimate dramas and genre work in his career, and Faceless marks a notably international turn, relocating a horror-thriller premise to a French setting while retaining his interest in characters shaped by trauma and secrecy. The film's focus on plastic surgery as a vehicle for horror taps into long-standing anxieties about identity, appearance, and the body being reshaped against one's will.
Where & how to watch
Faceless is available on K-Time with both Farsi dubbing and Persian subtitles, and the page can be browsed freely without an account. Streaming the film requires a K-Time login, part of a platform built around a Persian-language experience for viewers in the diaspora.