“Dead Ringers” (戦慄の絆), Original Release Japanese Movie Poster 1989, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) P35

This is an original Japanese B2 theatrical poster printed in 1989 for David Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers—the unsettling psychological/body-horror classic starring Jeremy Irons in a career-defining dual performance as identical twin gynaecologists whose lives (and identities) begin to collapse into obsession, jealousy, and psychosexual paranoia. Co-starring Geneviève Bujold, the film is widely regarded as one of Cronenberg’s most elegant—and most disturbing—works: clinical surfaces giving way to something feverish, intimate, and grotesque.

Film background
Dead Ringers sits at the peak of Cronenberg’s “cold modernism”: a surgical exploration of doubling, dependence, and control, set in a world of immaculate apartments, white coats, and private appetites. The twins’ shared life becomes a sealed ecosystem—until desire and professional ego turn that symmetry into a trap. It is as much tragic psychological drama as it is body horror, with a uniquely Canadian chill and a hypnotic sense of inevitability.

Poster design
A striking, concept-driven Japanese layout that feels gallery-graphic rather than conventional star montage. The top band includes a purple “DEAD RINGERS” panel with a stark medical illustration motif, flanked by key stills that emphasise performance and ritual. Below, the design lands its blow: a blurred, mirrored triptych of faces—two profiles closing in on a central gaze—creating an optical “double image” that perfectly echoes the film’s themes of identity fracture and anatomical unease. The huge red title 「戦慄の絆」 (“a bond of dread/terror”) slices across the composition like a warning label.

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

It is over 37 years old!
It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
Certificate of Authenticity included.