{"product_id":"apocalypse-now-original-release-japanese-movie-poster-1979-b2-size-51-x-73cm-i352","title":"“Apocalypse Now” \/ 「地獄の黙示録」, Original Release Japanese Movie Poster 1979, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) I352","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"353\"\u003eThis is an \u003cstrong data-start=\"116\" data-end=\"158\"\u003eoriginal Japanese B2 theatrical poster\u003c\/strong\u003e produced for the first Japanese release campaign of \u003cstrong data-start=\"211\" data-end=\"240\"\u003eApocalypse Now \/ 「地獄の黙示録」\u003c\/strong\u003e, Francis Ford Coppola’s monumental Vietnam War epic starring \u003cstrong data-start=\"302\" data-end=\"352\"\u003eMarlon Brando, Martin Sheen, and Robert Duvall\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"355\" data-end=\"615\"\u003eThe film premiered internationally in 1979 and opened theatrically in Japan in 1980. This poster prominently announces its triumph at the \u003cstrong data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"522\"\u003e1979 Cannes Film Festival\u003c\/strong\u003e and uses the celebrated international artwork created by legendary illustrator \u003cstrong data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"614\"\u003eBob Peak\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"636\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"636\"\u003eFilm background\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"638\" data-end=\"791\"\u003eLoosely adapted from Joseph Conrad’s \u003cem data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"694\"\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e, the story relocates the novella’s journey into the wilderness to the height of the Vietnam War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"793\" data-end=\"1106\"\u003eCaptain \u003cstrong data-start=\"801\" data-end=\"824\"\u003eBenjamin L. Willard\u003c\/strong\u003e is assigned a secret mission to travel upriver through Vietnam and Cambodia. His objective is to locate and assassinate \u003cstrong data-start=\"945\" data-end=\"972\"\u003eColonel Walter E. 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