“Delicatessen” (デリカテッセン), Original Release Japanese Movie Poster 1991, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) B171
This is an original Japanese B2 theatrical poster printed in 1991 for the first Japanese release of Delicatessen (デリカテッセン), the celebrated French black comedy directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, and starring Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, and Ticky Holgado.
Film background
Released in 1991, Delicatessen is one of the most distinctive European cult films of its era: a darkly comic, post-apocalyptic fantasy set in a crumbling apartment building where food is scarce and survival has taken on grotesque new forms. Combining macabre humour, surreal production design, visual invention, and moments of surprising tenderness, the film announced Jeunet and Caro as major original voices in contemporary cinema.
The film is especially significant as an early landmark in the career of Jean-Pierre Jeunet, preceding later internationally recognised works such as The City of Lost Children and Amélie. Its world is at once theatrical, dystopian, absurd, and strangely romantic, and it remains one of the defining cult titles of 1990s French cinema.
Poster design
This Japanese poster is instantly memorable and graphically brilliant. Rather than presenting a busy montage of characters or scenes, the design reduces the film’s grotesque humour and unsettling tone to a single unforgettable image: a golden pig mounted against a distressed, meat-red wall, with the title DELICATESSEN blazing above in large orange lettering and the Japanese title boldly anchored below.
It is an exceptionally effective design — minimal, surreal, and slightly sinister. The pig functions as both a visual joke and a dark symbol of the film’s cannibalistic, absurdist universe, while the cracked, richly textured red background gives the sheet a tactile, almost painterly quality. This is exactly the kind of Japanese poster design collectors love: bold, concept-driven, and visually cleaner than many international campaign posters.
As a display piece, it is superb — striking from across a room and unmistakably tied to one of the great cult films of the period.
Condition
Excellent. Please review the photos—they show the exact poster for sale.
It is over 35 years old!
It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
