This is an original Japanese B2 poster printed in 1976 for the domestic theatrical release of A Boy Named Charlie Brown (スヌーピーとチャーリー), the first Peanuts feature film directed by Bill Melendez and distributed in Japan by Toho-Towa (TOWA). First-issue Japanese posters for Peanuts titles are highly collectible.
Film background
Charlie Brown trains for the National Spelling Bee with support—and comic sabotage—from Snoopy, Linus, Lucy, and the gang. The film expands Schulz’s world with Melendez’s animation and a soundtrack blending Vince Guaraldi’s jazz and new songs by Rod McKuen.
Poster design
A cheerful country sheet: Snoopy, in green trunks and red cap, hoists a hot-pink surfboard inside a circular sky vignette while Charlie Brown looks on; the whole baseball team crowds the mound along the bottom. The tall, playful vertical logotype 「スヌーピーとチャーリー」 runs down the right. TOWA distributor mark and the Eirin rating stamp are printed at lower right—classic hallmarks of an authentic first-release sheet with bright wall presence.
This poster is in excellent condition (please refer to the imagery of the exact poster for sale).
It is over 49 years old.
It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
