"Jigoku (The Inferno)" (地獄), Original Japanese First-Release Movie Poster 1979, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) ZA1

This is an original Japanese B2 poster printed in 1979 for Toei’s late-Showa horror fantasy Jigoku (The Inferno), directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro with a theme song by Hako Yamasaki. Not to be confused with Nobuo Nakagawa’s 1960 film of the same title, Kumashiro’s version reimagines Buddhist underworld visions for a new generation—melding myth, morality, and nightmarish set-pieces into a cult favourite of Japanese genre cinema.

Poster design
A blazing hellscape collage sweeps across the sheet: sinners cascade through spike fields and fire, watched by a colossal, blood-rimmed eye beneath an apocalyptic sky. A small heroine portrait anchors the lower left while the jagged scarlet brush title 「地獄」 and the English subtitle THE INFERNO dominate the base—pure late-’70s Toei spectacle.

Condition
Very Good overall: light handling/pressure lines, scattered edge wear and tiny nicks, small corner stress and minute pinholes; colours remain bold and the poster displays excellently. Please see photos—the images show the exact item for sale.

This poster is an original Japanese theatrical B2 from Toei’s 1979 first-release campaign.

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

Certificate of Authenticity included.

It is over 46 years old!