Star Wars Return of the Jedi Japanese movie poster”, originally uploaded by japanese-movie-posters.

Star Wars Return of the Jedi Japanese movie poster”

One of five distinct styles of B2 for Return of the Jedi. This is the only art style featuring the characters.

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Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back original Japanese movie poster, originally uploaded by japanese-movie-posters.

Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back original Japanese B2 movie poster (Ohrai art)

The most sought after of the Japanese Empire Strikes Back B2 posters featuring unique art by Noriyoshi Ohrai. You can see all the different types of Japanese Star Wars posters at Star Wars movie poster.com.

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Original Star Wars Japanese B2 advance movie poster, originally uploaded by japanese-movie-posters.

Original Star Wars Japanese B2 advance movie poster

There are at least three different styles from the original release of Star Wars — this teaser advance is certainly the scarcest of any of those styles in my experience. You can see all the different types of Japanese Star Wars posters at Star Wars movie poster.com.

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Thunderball Japanese movie poster R74, originally uploaded by japanese-movie-posters.

Thunderball Japanese B2 movie poster R74

Sean Connery in Thunderball — this one is from the 1974 re-release in Japan.

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Machine Girl Japanese B2 movie poster, originally uploaded by japanese-movie-posters.

Machine Girl (Kataude mashin gâru) Japanese B2 movie poster

This one was just too irresistible. Love the tagline: A Girl, A Machinegun, A Revenge. What else do you need to know? No Eirin on this, indicating a limited/low budget release. There is a photo style poster for this one as well, but I do prefer the cartoon version shown here.

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Mirror Man (Mirâman – 1973) Japanese B2 movie poster, originally uploaded by japanese-movie-posters.

Mirror Man (Mirâman – 1973) Japanese B2 movie poster

Mirror Man! Has anyone actually seen this? Looks like a real romp, from the pioneering days of the semi-robot suited superheros. Actually, the original TV version of Miraman dates BEFORE Ultraman, and the movie came out 6 years before. I’m not an expert on all the intricacies of the history, but clearly Miraman was a groundbreaking concept.

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U2 Rattle & Hum Japanese B2 movie poster, originally uploaded by japanese-movie-posters.

U2 Rattle & Hum Japanese B2 movie poster

I’m going to see U2 in October; I’m a big U2 fan, so I could not pass this one up. While it’s not the most beautiful poster, it is pretty scarce and evocative of a certain time.

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Uchu daikaiju GIRARA (aka X from Outer Space) Japanese B2 movie poster, originally uploaded by japanese-movie-posters.

GIRARA Japanese B2 movie poster

How can anyone not love Girara? Just look at him! He’s completely hapless — no one could be scared by this guy, right?

This is obviously a different style from the other Girara poster I have, and apparently is a tie-up poster (meaning co-promotional with something, like the Totoro Japan Rail poster and others). However, I have not yet established exactly what this is a tie-up WITH. I’m going to have to do some translation on some of the fine print to figure out what the real deal is.

Anyway, a very cool poster, pretty rare, and I’m beyond pleased to have it.

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Rolling Stones Shine A Light Japanese B2 movie poster, originally uploaded by japanese-movie-posters.

Rolling Stones Shine A Light Japanese B2 movie poster

I really like the collage design of this poster — what great material to work with, right? A legendary band documented by one of the all time genius directors… Definitely hard to get this one in any size — on matte stock with gold ink highlights.

Also a quick note — the Japanese Poster Gallery now has a Google Pagerank of 1!! Yes, out of 10, it only has a rank of 1, but it’s taken a lot of work to get out of the ZERO category. Good stuff, thanks to all who are linking here, whoever you are.

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Kill Bill Advance Japanese B2 movie poster, originally uploaded by japanese-movie-posters.

Kill Bill Advance Japanese B2 movie poster

This Kill Bill poster is not the rarest, but it is pretty scarce, especially these days. Like all the other Kill Bill material it keeps getting harder and harder to find with every passing year. Printed on matte stock. Some may disagree but I think this one is rarer than the Kill Bill 2 Bride style.

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