This is an original Japanese press-sheet / speed poster printed in 1966 for the first Japanese release of Django (続・荒野の用心棒), directed by Sergio Corbucci and distributed in Japan by Towa (later Toho‑Towa).
This poster is extremely rare and very collectible.
Django is a 1966 Italian–Spanish Spaghetti Western directed, co‑written and produced by Sergio Corbucci. It stars Franco Nero in his breakthrough role as Django, a lone gunman who trudges across the US–Mexico border dragging a coffin behind him; he and the prostitute María are soon caught in a savage war between a gang of ex‑Confederate “Red Shirts” led by Major Jackson and a band of Mexican revolutionaries. Conceived to ride the wave of success created by Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, the film once again draws loose inspiration from Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, pitting its enigmatic anti‑hero against two rival factions in a ravaged border town.
On its original release Django shocked audiences with its muddy, brutal aesthetic and unusually graphic violence for the time; in the UK it remained banned for decades before finally being passed uncut in the 1990s. Over the years it has gained a huge cult following and is now widely regarded as one of the finest Spaghetti Westerns not directed by Leone, praised for Corbucci’s muscular direction, Nero’s iconic performance and Luis Bacalov’s unforgettable score.
In Japan the film opened on 23 September 1966 under the title 続・荒野の用心棒 (Zoku Kōya no Yōjinbō, literally “Continuation: The Bodyguard of the Wilderness”), marketed as both a reinterpretation of Yojimbo and an unofficial follow‑up to A Fistful of Dollars, which had been released locally as 荒野の用心棒. The theme song “Django”, composed by Luis Bacalov with lyrics by Franco Migliacci and Robert Mellin and conducted by Bruno Nicolai, became one of the most recognisable Western themes of the era and was issued in multiple single versions, including Japanese pressings promoted with materials like this very sheet.
This press-sheet / speed poster is in excellent condition. Please refer to the imagery (both front and back) as this is the exact poster that is for sale.
It is almost 60 years old!
It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
