“Dogra Magra”, Original Japanese First Release Movie Poster 1988, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) M162
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description: This is an original Japanese B2 poster printed in 1988 for the film’s first theatrical release of Dogra Magra (ドグラ・マグラ), Toshio Matsumoto’s hallucinatory adaptation of Kyūsaku Yumeno’s celebrated 1935 novel. Released in Japan on 15 October 1988, the film stars Yōji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura, Hideo Murota, Eri Misawa, Kyōko Enami, Morimoto Leo, and Fumio Watanabe. The poster is particularly significant for its extraordinary artwork by Keiichi Ohta (太田螢一), presented within a design by Ryoichi Enomoto (榎本了壱). This collaboration produced one of the most distinctive Japanese film posters of the late 1980s. Film background The story begins when an unidentified young man awakens inside a psychiatric hospital with no memory of his identity or past. Two doctors attempt to reconstruct his history, gradually linking him to a possible attempted murder, a mysterious manuscript, hereditary experimentation, and a labyrinthine series of events in which memory, hallucination, and objective reality become increasingly impossible to separate. Rather than translating Yumeno’s notoriously complex novel into a conventional mystery, Matsumoto constructs a psychological and visual maze concerned with identity, inherited memory, madness, medical authority, and the reliability of consciousness itself. The film was directed by Toshio Matsumoto, the experimental filmmaker behind Funeral Parade of Roses, from a screenplay written with Atsushi Yamatoya. Cinematography was by Tatsuo Suzuki, production design by Takeo Kimura, and music by Haruna Miyake. The completed film runs approximately 109 minutes. Poster design This Japanese B2 is dominated by a surreal, grotesquely caricatured illustration by Keiichi Ohta, whose strange retro-modern imagery perfectly complements the film’s atmosphere of medical anxiety and psychological disorientation. At the centre, a bald physician wearing round spectacles and surgical gloves holds a syringe with exaggerated delicacy. His compressed facial features, pursed…
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