“Love Strange Love” / 「体験」, Original First Japanese Release Movie Poster 1983, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) ZA711
Sale price$110.00
This is an original Japanese B2 theatrical poster printed for the first Japanese release of Love Strange Love / 「体験」, the controversial Brazilian drama directed by Walter Hugo Khouri and starring Vera Fischer, Marcelo Ribeiro, Xuxa Meneghel, and Tarcísio Meira.
Released internationally as Amor Estranho Amor / Love Strange Love, the film is one of the more notorious Brazilian art-house dramas of the early 1980s. This Japanese poster is especially striking for its dramatic, highly charged design: a large close-up of the young protagonist, a central triangular image, bold pink side typography, and a vivid red calligraphic title.
Film background Directed by Walter Hugo Khouri, a major figure in Brazilian cinema known for psychological and existential dramas, Love Strange Love is structured as the recollection of an adult man looking back on a formative and disturbing period from his childhood.
Set in the late 1930s, the film follows Hugo, a young boy sent to stay with his mother in an elite adult household connected to political power, desire, and corruption. The film explores memory, sexuality, social hypocrisy, and the loss of innocence in a highly controversial manner.
Over time, the film became infamous not only for its subject matter, but also for the later legal and public controversy surrounding its distribution, particularly because of Xuxa Meneghel’s subsequent fame as one of Latin America’s most beloved children’s television personalities.
Poster design The Japanese B2 design is visually intense and psychologically direct. The upper section is dominated by a large close-up of the young protagonist’s face, his blue eyes staring forward with a solemn, almost frozen expression. The image gives the poster its emotional tension, placing innocence and memory at the centre of the composition.
Below, an inverted triangular inset contains an intimate scene from the film, framed against the darker surrounding field. This triangular structure gives the poster a distinctly theatrical, almost confessional quality.
At right, the large vertical pink Japanese copy presents the film’s provocative premise, while the left-side blue text lists the women whose presence shapes the boy’s memory and experience. At the bottom, the Japanese title 「体験」 is rendered in bold, rough-edged red calligraphy, with the English title “Love Strange Love” printed beneath alongside the director credit for Walter Hugo Khouri.
The overall design is very much of its period: sensational, art-house, psychologically charged, and unmistakably Japanese in its use of bold typography and emotional framing.
Condition Excellent condition. A very attractive example, with strong colour, clean photographic imagery, vivid title typography, and excellent overall display impact.
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This is an original Japanese theatrical poster. It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
