Japanese Posters for Western Films

Japanese Poster for “Alfie”
Japanese Poster for “Fahrenheit 451”
Japanese Poster for “Hud”
Japanese Poster for “Bullitt”

I really enjoyed these Japanese posters for Western films from the 1960s collected over at the retro site Voices of East Anglia. The visual sensibilities are fascinating—generally more modern and graphical than I associate with these pictures, but sometimes weirdly at odds with their actual content. The poster for the Paul Newman film “Hud,” for instance, is stunning from a design perspective, but it seems fairly alien to the experience of actually watching that movie. See a few more and explore the many other troves of vintage goodness at voicesofeastanglia.com.

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