“Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut” (ブレードランナー［最終版］), Original Japanese Re-Release Movie Poster 1992, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) P184

This is an original Japanese B2 theatrical poster printed in 1992 for the first Japanese re-release of Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut (ブレードランナー), Ridley Scott’s science-fiction landmark—presented here in the celebrated Director’s Cut. The poster features the iconic painted key art by John Alvin, one of the most influential poster illustrators of the late 20th century.

Film background
Originally released in 1982, Blade Runner is a dystopian science-fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, and loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Set in a rain-soaked future Los Angeles of 2019, the story follows burnt-out detective Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) as he is forced to hunt down a group of escaped replicants—bio-engineered humans created by the Tyrell Corporation for off-world labour. Led by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), the fugitives’ return to Earth becomes an existential confrontation about memory, identity, and what it means to be human.

Although the film initially underperformed and divided critics, it later became one of cinema’s great cult masterpieces—praised for its thematic complexity, revolutionary production design, and status as a definitive work of neo-noir science fiction. Vangelis’s score (itself iconic) was nominated for major awards and remains inseparable from the film’s atmosphere. Blade Runner has since influenced generations of science fiction films, anime, games, and television—and helped bring Philip K. Dick’s work to a much wider audience. The film was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry (Library of Congress) in 1993.

Poster design
This Japanese B2 uses John Alvin’s definitive Blade Runner imagery: Deckard’s intense portrait with pistol, Rachael beneath with cigarette, and the Tyrell cityscape glowing with neon—spinner vehicles, monolithic architecture, and a sense of future-noir density. The bold Japanese title ブレードランナー dominates the top, while the 最終版 (“final version”) callout emphasises the Director’s Cut presentation. A superb, instantly recognisable B2—one of the most displayable modern sci-fi posters ever produced.

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

It is over 33 years old!
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