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Produced in the large B2 format specifically for the film’s initial run, it was issued for a picture made by \u003cstrong data-start=\"507\" data-end=\"529\"\u003eKindai Eiga Kyokai\u003c\/strong\u003e and distributed by \u003cstrong data-start=\"549\" data-end=\"561\"\u003eShochiku\u003c\/strong\u003e, opening in Japan on \u003cstrong data-start=\"583\" data-end=\"601\"\u003e27 August 1966\u003c\/strong\u003e. Most importantly for collectors, the \u003cstrong data-start=\"640\" data-end=\"674\"\u003eNational Film Archive of Japan\u003c\/strong\u003e credits the film’s \u003cstrong data-start=\"694\" data-end=\"700\"\u003e題字\u003c\/strong\u003e (title lettering) to \u003cstrong data-start=\"722\" data-end=\"745\"\u003e岡本太郎 (Taro Okamoto)\u003c\/strong\u003e—and this poster still bears the striking, signed \u003cstrong data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"805\"\u003e“TARO”\u003c\/strong\u003e brushwork that gives the sheet such unusual crossover appeal between cinema and postwar Japanese avant-garde art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"921\" data-end=\"1678\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"921\" data-end=\"939\"\u003eAbout the film\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"939\" data-end=\"942\"\u003eDirected by \u003cstrong data-start=\"954\" data-end=\"971\"\u003eKaneto Shindō\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr data-start=\"972\" data-end=\"975\"\u003eStarring \u003cstrong data-start=\"984\" data-end=\"1068\"\u003eHideo Kanze, Nobuko Otowa, Eijirō Tōno, Kaori Shima, Taiji Tonoyama, Jūkichi Uno\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr data-start=\"1069\" data-end=\"1072\"\u003eShochiku’s official synopsis places the story in the seasonal landscape of the \u003cstrong data-start=\"1151\" data-end=\"1174\"\u003eTateshina Highlands\u003c\/strong\u003e, where a man known only as “the Master” confronts \u003cstrong data-start=\"1225\" data-end=\"1245\"\u003esexual impotence\u003c\/strong\u003e linked to the legacy of \u003cstrong data-start=\"1270\" data-end=\"1283\"\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/strong\u003e and, later, the \u003cstrong data-start=\"1300\" data-end=\"1331\"\u003eBikini \/ Fifth Lucky Dragon\u003c\/strong\u003e nuclear trauma, while a widowed housekeeper tries to restore his humanity and desire. English-language databases list the film as \u003cstrong data-start=\"1462\" data-end=\"1474\"\u003eLost Sex\u003c\/strong\u003e, and the BFI notes that it belongs to Shindō’s \u003cstrong data-start=\"1522\" data-end=\"1561\"\u003elesser-seen mid-1960s erotic period\u003c\/strong\u003e—a phase that followed the success of \u003cem data-start=\"1599\" data-end=\"1617\"\u003eThe Naked Island\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1622\" data-end=\"1631\"\u003eOnibaba\u003c\/em\u003e but was often retitled and neglected overseas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1680\" data-end=\"2550\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1680\" data-end=\"1697\"\u003ePoster design\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"1697\" data-end=\"1700\"\u003eA superb and highly unusual Japanese first-release design. The sheet is dominated by the huge crimson brush title \u003cstrong data-start=\"1814\" data-end=\"1820\"\u003e本能\u003c\/strong\u003e, executed in unmistakably explosive \u003cstrong data-start=\"1857\" data-end=\"1873\"\u003eTaro Okamoto\u003c\/strong\u003e style and signed \u003cstrong data-start=\"1891\" data-end=\"1901\"\u003e“TARO”\u003c\/strong\u003e at left. Against a pale, almost empty ground, the central black photographic form frames a dark, erotically charged image of the male lead looming over a reclining woman, while two silhouetted figures at either side and loose pastel accent shapes give the whole composition an experimental, modernist feel. The surrounding copy—asking whether “this man’s” function will return, and proclaiming a “new cinema eroticism”—makes the poster feel every bit as provocative and of-the-moment as the film itself. Official film records specifically credit \u003cstrong data-start=\"2448\" data-end=\"2459\"\u003eOkamoto\u003c\/strong\u003e for the title lettering, which is exactly the right way to describe his contribution here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3254\" data-end=\"3838\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"3254\" data-end=\"3267\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"3267\" data-end=\"3270\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"3270\" data-end=\"3358\"\u003eExcellent. 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