Japanese Cinema Blogathon: 10 Classic Japanese Film Posters
This is my second contribution for Japanese Cinema Blogathon for earthquake/tsunami relief. To be perfectly honest, I’ve only seen one of these films. But these posters are just so gorgeous, they make me want to see all of these films. I wish more western movie posters were this gorgeous.
浪華悲歌 Naniwa erejii (Osaka Elegy), 1936 (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
姿三四郎 Sugata Sanshirō (Judo Saga), 1943 (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
虎の尾を踏む男達 Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi (The Men Who Tread On the Tiger’s Tail), 1945 (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
羅生門 Rashōmon, 1950 (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
お遊さま Oyū-sama (Miss Oyu), 1951 (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
地獄門 Jigokumon (Gate of Hell),1953 (dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa)
楊貴妃 Yōkihi (Princess Yang Kwei-Fei), 1955 (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
土砂降り Doshaburi (Cloudburst aka Hard Rain), 1957 (dir. Noboru Nakamura)
蜘蛛巣城 Kumonosu-jō (Throne of Blood), 1957 (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
砂の女 Suna no onna (The Woman in the Dunes), 1964 (dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara)
Posted on March 17, 2011, in Blogathon and tagged Akira Kurosawa, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese Cinema Blogathon, Kenji Mizoguchi, Noboru Nakamura, Teinosuke Kinugasa. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
the diary of a film history fanatic 
They don’t make posters like this any longer… but at least some of the contemporary posters for recent films – Japanese or American – look pretty cool.
You can even see how cool Japanese design is in their potato chips bags and stuff. xD
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