“Maradona by Kusturica” (マラドーナ), Original Release Japanese Movie Poster 2009, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) ZA286

This is an original Japanese B2 poster printed in 2009 for the first Japanese theatrical release of Maradona by Kusturica, Emir Kusturica’s free‑form documentary portrait of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona. The film premiered at Cannes in 2008 and was later released in Japan under the shortened Japanese title マラドーナ.

Film background
Kusturica’s documentary follows Maradona through Naples, Buenos Aires and beyond, mixing candid present‑day footage, archival clips and animated sequences with the director’s own on‑screen musings. The film touches on Maradona’s poverty‑stricken childhood, meteoric rise at Boca Juniors and Napoli, the “Hand of God” and 1986 World Cup triumph, subsequent drug problems and enduring mythic status in Latin American popular culture. Rather than a conventional sports doc, it’s an idiosyncratic, almost fan‑letter‑like exploration of genius, excess and politics. 

Poster design
The Japanese B2 art turns a brick wall into both canvas and metaphor. A giant mural of Maradona in Argentina’s sky‑blue and white stripes covers the entire sheet, painted in rough stencil style with deep blue shadows over warm orange bricks. The word “MARADONA” spans the top, weathered like street art, while at the bottom right a photo‑real Emir Kusturica stands arms akimbo in front of the wall, grounding the mythic image in documentary reality. Japanese vertical text runs along the right edge, with the Cannes laurel and French credits preserved above the director’s name “KUSTURICA.” It’s a bold, urban design that perfectly captures the meeting of soccer iconography and auteur cinema.

This poster is in excellent condition (please refer to the imagery of the exact poster for sale).

It is over 16 years old.

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
Certificate of Authenticity included.