This is an original Japanese B2 poster printed in 1981 for a Japanese re-release of Luis Buñuel’s surrealist masterpiece The Exterminating Angel (皆殺しの天使 / El ángel exterminador), a Mexican production.
Film background
First released in 1962, Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel is one of the great works of surrealist cinema—an absurd, unsettling social satire in which a group of wealthy dinner guests find themselves unable to leave a room, despite no physical barrier. As hours (and days) pass, manners collapse into paranoia and cruelty, exposing class fragility and the thin veneer of “civilised” behaviour. Starring Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, and Enrique Rambal, it remains a cornerstone of Buñuel’s late-period work and one of the sharpest critiques of the bourgeois world ever put on screen.
Poster design
A sophisticated, collage-like Japanese B2 built from stark black-and-white stills arranged at oblique angles—echoing the film’s disorientation and social unraveling. The large vertical title 「皆殺しの天使」 is rendered in bold, brush-like grey lettering down the left, while a central diagonal frame carries the Spanish title EL ANGEL EXTERMINADOR over a banquet-table image. A punchy yellow inset still adds a single burst of colour, heightening unease, while the surrounding copy emphasises Buñuel’s auteur status and festival prestige. Minimal, cerebral, and quintessentially “Japanese art-house revival” in tone.
Condition
Excellent. Please review the photos—they show the exact poster for sale.
It is over 44 years old!
It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
