Tokyo: Dentsu Music and Entertainment, 1992. Draft script for the 1993 film.Based on essays by Hyakken Uchida. Following World War II, a retired professor finds late in life that his quality of life is greatly reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with a group of his adoring students. Yellow titled wrappers, perfect bound.....

Circa 1955. Japanese post-production script for the 1955 film, with the approval stamp of Elrin (along with the approval number, 1836, in holograph ink) on the front wrapper. Elrin was Japan's censorial review body at the time. Text and titles in Japanese. An elderly factory owner is increasingly fearful of what he believes to be Japan's looming, inevitable destruction in.....

Tokyo: Toho Company, Circa 1948. Draft script for the 1948 Japanese film. Text and titles in Japanese.The first of sixteen film collaborations between director Akira Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune. Kurosawa's seventh film saw him exploring the inter workings and motivations of the yakuza and machismo. Censorship was tight regarding the occupation, forbidding American criticism, leading Kurosawa to slip in.....

Tokyo: Toho, 1952. Vintage oversize reference photograph from the 1952 Japanese film, showing director Akira Kurosawa adjusting the lid of a teapot while actors Takashi Shimura and Miki Odagiri look on. With the stamps of Forum Film and Israel Film Archive on the verso.A mid-level government bureaucrat discovers he has terminal cancer, and decides to try to find meaning in.....

New York: Greenwich Film Productions, 1985. Draft script for the 1985 film. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Text, titles, and annotations in Japanese.Based on Shakespeare's play "King Lear." An elderly warlord in medieval Japan divides his vast empire among his three sons. The power corrupts them and turns them on each other, as well as their father. Nominated for four.....

N.p. N.p., 1973. Vintage borderless press photograph of Alejandro Jodorowsky directing his third film, "The Holy Mountain." Mimeo snipe on the verso credited to the director's Mexican production company, Procinemex, describing the details of the photo in Spanish. 9.5 x 7.5 inches. Near Fine.

Budapest: Balsz Bela Studio, 1977. Vintage post-production promotional script for the 1977 Hungarian film. Includes a prose narrative describing the film story, reviews, quotes, and critical essays. Text in Hungarian.Easily the most rigidly philosophical promotional script ever issued, with the narrative portion being essentially one long run-on sentence wherein Tarr describes his intentions for his first film. It would be.....

N.p. MOKEP, 1977. Vintage Hungarian A2 poster from the 1977 Hungarian film, here under its Hungarian title "Csaladi Tuzfeszek." Bela Tarr's debut feature film, shot in six days, a dark and desperate portrayal of a couple forced to live in a cramped, tiny flat with the husband's parents, suffocating under the rule of a dominating father, reflecting the national hopelessness.....

Hong Kong: Golden Harvest / Concord Productions, 1972. Collection of three vintage lobby cards for the 1972 film, likely for an international release. The first film produced by Bruce Lee's Concord Productions studio, as well as Lee's screenwriting and directorial debuts, and the film debut of Chuck Norris, who battles Lee in an iconic fight scene at the film's climax.....

N.p. Cimesa, 1943. Original small Spanish language brochure for the 1943 Mexican film. The second color feature film and the first children's fantasy film produced in Mexico. With a live-action cast set in a fantastical world, the film follows the adventures of Pinocho, the same character revived in Disney's classic 1940 animation. 4.5 x 6 inches. Fine.

N.p. N.p., Circa 1940. Vintage US studio still photograph from the 1940 Australian film, showing the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, or ANZACs, approaching enemy fire in the desert. Date stamps to the verso. A dramatization of the attack of the Australian Light Horse mounted troops during the Sinai and Palestine campaign during World War I.Shot on location in.....

N.p. Commonwealth United Entertainment, 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film. Previously filmed in 1949, directed by Rudoph Mate and starring Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, and Luther Adler. Australian remake of the 1949 film starring Tom Tryon as Frank Bigelow, a lawyer who discovers he has been poisoned with only weeks to live, and to find out.....

Beverly Hills, CA: UFA / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1926. Vintage US reference photograph for the 1926 German film. With a printed snipe on the verso noting both UFA and MGM. Murnau’s final German film before emigrating to America, where he would make four more films before his untimely death, including the late silent masterpiece "Sunrise."10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus.....

N.p. N.p., 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1971 film. Two dated "L'Express" stamps, two "Publiee" stamps with annotations in holograph marker, and a "Viva la Muerte" stamp on verso. Based on the 1959 novel "Baal Babilonia" by Fernando Arrabal. Arrabal's fierce directorial debut.A young boy of about ten, Fando, tries to make sense of his father's arrest and.....

N.p. N.p., 1962. Collection of four vintage borderless studio still photographs from the 1962 film. Rare."Love at Twenty" is anthology film on the titular theme by five filmmakers, Shintaro Ishihara, Marcel Ophuls, Renzo Rossellini, Francois Truffault, and Andrzej Wajda, united with a score by Georges Delerue and photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson.Truffaut's short is the second of five films which follow.....

Bulgaria: Boyana Films, 1965. Three vintage reference photographs of actor Guy Madison from the 1965 Bulgarian film, with dialogue in German, based on the 1892 story by Karl May "Das Vermachtnis des Inka," originally published in the German magazine "Der Gute Kamerad."Following the cancellation of "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" in 1957, Guy Madison moved to Europe, where he.....

N.p. Allied Artists, 1968. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the 1966 film, housed in their original brown paper envelope stamped "Battle of Algiers B7," with annotations on envelope in holograph marker. Italian neorealist director Gillo Pontecorvo’s careful, documentary style account of the guerrilla war for Algerian independence from France, concentrating on the historical, titular battle. Its unflinching.....

US: AG Enterprises, 1979. Vintage poster for the independent, Spanish-language 1979 film. Written, directed, produced, and starring popular Cuban comedian Alvarez Guedes, a farce about an attempt to create an organization of all the various Hispanic peoples in the United States despite their cultural differences. 26. x 37.25 inches. Bright and Near Fine, with light bruising to the top edge.....

N.p. N.p., 1983. Collection of 12 reference photographs from the 1983 Japanese adult pinku [pink] comedy film. Also included with the set is a film program in Japanese. Housed in a manila envelope. Two photographs 6 x 4.25 inches, eight photographs 4 x 6 inches, one photograph 2.2 x 6 inches, one photograph 6.5 x 4.75 inches. Film program is.....

Tokyo: Toei Animation, circa 1968. Vintage post-production script for the animated 1968 Japanese film "Horus: Prince of the Sun," also known under the title "The Little Norse Prince." This listing also includes a pamphlet of character designs for the film. A milestone in the history of Japanese animation, heralded as the first animated feature to successfully disrupt the Walt Disney.....

Tokyo: Shinchosha, Circa 1988. Draft script for the 1988 Japanese animated film. Text and titles in Japanese. Based on Akiyuki Nosaka's semi-autobiographical short story, following the final days of two Japanese children during World War II. Nosaka purportedly heartily approved of the choice to adapt his story as an animated film, noting that he believed it would have been impossible.....

N.p. N.p., 1996. Two vintage Hong Kong posters, designed to be displayed side by side, for the 1996 film. A comedy set to the backdrop of a Chinese driving school. Shot on location in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. 27 x 31 inches each. Fine.

Hong Kong: Cathay Studios / Cheung Ming Film / Golden Harvest, 1972. Vintage double-sided flyer for the 1972 film. With an English language synopsis on one side. After his martial arts school is destroyed by a rival and he loses his arm, a young man must learn to fight one handed in order to seek vengeance. Followed 1976's "Master of.....

Prague: Filmove studio Barrandov, 1965. Re-release herald for the 1965 Czechoslovakia film "The Shop on Main Street," with four image from the film, and text in both Czech and English. Based on the 1962 short story "The Trap" by screenwriter Ladislav Grosman, and one of the comparatively few films from the Czechoslovak New Wave filmed in the Slovak as opposed.....

Prague: Filmove studio Barrandov, 1965. Original program for the 1965 Czechoslovak new wave film, with text in both French and English, made for the international release of the film. Illustrated throughout with both still images from the film and impressionistic illustrations. The end of WWII from the perspective on a boy in a rural farming village, equally worried about retreating.....

BerlinParis: Universum Film [UFA] / L'Alliance Cinematographique Europeenne, 1936. Vintage French pressbook for the 1936 German film "Flitterwochen," seen here under the alternate title "Faux Depart." A German comedy in which a honeymoon goes wrong, beginning when the wife insists on bringing her pet dog on her honeymoon. Two pages, saddle stapled, 9.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus, with.....

Kanagawa, Japan: Daiei Studios, 1956. Draft script for the 1956 film. Text in Japanese. With annotations on a few pages in holograph ink. Based on the novel "Susaki No Onna" by Yoshiko Shibaki. The last film of Mizoguchi, this film is a vivid portrayal of prostitution in 1950s Japan, shot before the Japanese government's anti-prostitution bill, told through the perspective.....

N.p. N.p., Circa 1968. Collection of six vintage reference photographs from the 1968 film. A team of scientists returning from a space mission realize they've brought back a green, gooey substance capable of transforming into one-eyed, murderous cephalopods.Shot on location in Japan.10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus, several with pinholes to the corners.

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1964. Collection of eight vintage, borderless reference photographs from the 1964 film. Based on the 1963 novel "The Lady Killer" ("Ryojin nikki") by novelist, singer, and actor Masako Togawa, who also starred in the film. An unhappily married man, who maintains a secret apartment and records the details of his affairs in a diary, must prove his innocence.....

N.p. Lo Wei Motion Picture Company, 1978. Vintage Hong Kong poster for the 1978 film. A 1978 Honk Kong martial arts film starring Jackie Chan as Yi-Lang, a sassy martial arts student who learns to master a once-lost style of fighting. 20 x 30 inches. Light holograph pencil notation to the verso, else Near Fine.

Mexico: Cinematografica Galindo, 1970. Collection of vintage lobby cards for the 1970 Western comedy. With a film still photograph tipped onto the illustrated cards. In the original brown paper envelope with the label of distributor Clasa-Mohme. A famous movie cowboy is mistaken for the character he plays by his hometown, who want him to rid them of bandits. 14 x......

N.p. Objektiv Film, 1977. Studio Dialogue script for the 1979 Hungarian film, seen here under the Hungarian title "Magyar rapszodia." Text in Hungarian. The first of Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century to World War II, as told by the conflicted son of a wealthy landowner. Nominated for the 1979 Palme d'Or at Cannes.....

Tokyo: Shockiku Ofuna, 1960. Draft script for the 1960 film. Text in Japanese. A young woman is hitchhiking when the driver who picks her up attempts to molest her. A young gangster comes to her aid and then leads her on a wild relationship through the Japanese underground towards the eventual destruction of both of them. White titled perfect bound.....

N.p. Oshima Productions, 1999. Two vintage reference photographs taken on the set of the 1999 film, one showing director Nagisa Oshima near a camera setup, the other showing Oshima laughing with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and actors Takeshi Kitano and Ryuhei Matsuda. With holograph ink annotations on the verso.Based on the 1969 novel "Shinsengumi Kepp roku" by Ryotaro Shiba. Oshima's final.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1981. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1981 film. The famed Japanese photographer's only cinematic work, a "pink" film for Nikkatsu Studio's "Roman Porno" series, known alternately as "High School Girl Fake Diary," "The Pseudo-Diary of a High School Girl," and "Diary of a High School Girl" in English. Pink film is a broad genre.....

Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1989. Collection of three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1989 Australian film. Based on Charles Williams' 1963 novel, which follows a grieving couple whose solitary yachting trip is disturbed by a stranger claiming to be the sole survivor of a sinking ship. The first successful adaptation of Williams' novel, which Orson.....

Mexico: Cinematografica Filmex, 1971. Collection of six vintage lobby cards for the 1971 film. With a film still photograph tipped onto the illustrated cards. In the original brown paper envelope with the label of distributor Azteca Films. A man hunts the escaped convict who killed his wife in an increasingly deadly quest for revenge. 14 x 11 inches. About Near.....

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1967 film. A South African, DeLuxe Color remake of William A. Wellman's 1948 film "Yellow Sky," based on W.R. Burnett's unpublished novel, which was loosely based on William Shakespeare's "The Tempest."Prospector Oupa Decker (Vincent Price) and his granddaughter (Diana Ivarson) are targeted by bandits led by 'Stretch' Hawkins.....

Spain / Puerto Rico: Argos SLPC / Producciones Dulzaides, 1971. Vintage poster for the 1971 Spanish / Puerto Rican co-production. After her brother dies, a woman must take care of her niece, the result of an extramarital affair with a woman of color. 26 x 36.5 inches. Very Good plus. Pinholes to the corners, and light chipping, with some text.....

Tokyo: Nikkatsu, 1967. Draft script for the 1967 film. Text in Japanese. An experimental, absurdist, pop art satire of yakuza films and film noir, Suzuki’s film was a failure on release, leading him to be fired and then blackballed by the studio for making films that made neither sense nor profit. The film rightly became a cult classic with its.....