A World of Kurosawa Posters at Tokyo Exhibition

Kurosawa Akira (1910–98) at Narita Airport on May 26, 1980, after winning the Palme d’Or for Kagemusha at the Cannes Film Festival. (© Jiji)

Clockwise from top left: Wladyslaw Janiszewski’s 1960 Polish poster for Drunken Angel (1948); a 1950s Argentine poster for Ikiru (1952); a Thai poster for Red Beard (1965); Otto Kummert’s 1981 East German poster for Kagemusha (1980); a 1963 British poster for High and Low (1963).

The Golden Lion award received by Rashōmon at the Venice Film Festival (bottom left) and two West German posters for the film (center). The above poster is from 1952; the lower (pictured separately at right) is a 1959 poster by Hans Hillmann.

Hans Hillmann’s 1962 West German poster for Seven Samurai (1954). Okada Hidenori is pictured giving analysis.

Jano’s 1965 Spanish poster for Seven Samurai (left) and an Argentine poster from 1957. Although both are in Spanish, they have different titles.

Carlantonio Longi’s 1959 Italian poster for Throne of Blood (1957; left) and posters for The Hidden Fortress (1958) from Luigi Martinati (Italy, 1960; center), Nina Schiøttz (Denmark, 1969; top right), and Andrzej Piwonski (Poland, 1968; bottom right).

Eduardo Muñoz Bachs’ 1996 Cuban poster for Red Beard (1965; left) and a 1962 US poster for Yōjimbō (1961).

Kurosawa’s red filming jacket for Tora! Tora! Tora! is on display at center. Behind it is the official poster for the 1983 Cannes Film Festival featuring one of his pictures.