“For a Few Dollars More” (夕陽のガンマン), Original Japanese First Release Movie Poster 1965, B3 Size (c. 36 × 51.5 cm) O633

This is an original Japanese B3 poster issued in Japan for the first domestic release of Sergio Leone’s For a Few Dollars More (1965)—the essential middle chapter of the “Dollars Trilogy”—starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef, with Gian Maria Volonté, and featuring Ennio Morricone’s iconic score. 

A defining title of the spaghetti western boom, the film pits two rival bounty hunters—Eastwood’s laconic “Monco” and Van Cleef’s formidable Colonel Mortimer—into an uneasy alliance to bring down the sadistic outlaw El Indio. Stylish, violent, and operatic, it remains one of Leone’s most purely entertaining masterpieces.

Poster design
One of the most striking Japanese Leone designs: a vast burning-orange sky frames the backlit gunslinger—poncho, hat, and revolver—reduced to pure mythic silhouette. A tense portrait close-up (Van Cleef) anchors the lower left, while the sharp Japanese title 夕陽のガンマン slashes across the top in vivid magenta. The long red copy line reads like hardboiled poetry—selling the “whistle,” the gun, and the ruthless quick-draw persona—perfectly tuned to the film’s Morricone-driven atmosphere and showman violence.

As with many Japanese B3 issues of the period, the reverse is fully printed with Japanese text and stills—programme-style synopsis and feature content—making this a particularly desirable, “as-used” piece of original theatrical marketing ephemera.

Condition
Excellent overall. Please review the photos as they show the exact poster for sale.

It is over 58 years old!

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
Certificate of Authenticity included.