The Story of Film: An Odyssey - Yasujiro Ozu. Heroes of the KGB: the communist bloc's spy films. A secret agent is attending a party in an elegant apartment.
Beautiful young people wear the latest fashions, sip martinis and canoodle in corners. The spy slips into a back room and starts breaking into a safe. Kao Nashi / No Face. In the old days my neighbor told me that there would sometimes be a single silkworm amongst ten thousand that did not have the markings on it's forehead.
Children would look for these rare kaonashi oddities. This year for some Mendelic reason, half have faces (actually markings on their upper backs) and half are white with no markings at all.
Film Theory.