“Max, Mon Amour” (マックス、モン・アムール), Original Japanese Movie Poster 1987, Nagisa Oshima / Roland Topor Artwork, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) I156

This is an original Japanese B2 theatrical poster printed for the 1987 Japanese release of Max, Mon Amour (Max My Love), the surreal satirical comedy-drama directed by Japanese auteur Nagisa Oshima and starring Charlotte Rampling and Anthony Higgins.

Although Max, Mon Amour was a French-produced film, the Japanese release campaign retained the celebrated avant-garde French artwork by Roland Topor, adapting the same minimalist layout into the standard Japanese B2 format. The result is a highly unusual Japanese release poster: visually French in its graphic restraint, but issued for the film’s theatrical promotion in Japan.

Film background
Directed by Nagisa Oshima, best known internationally for In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Max, Mon Amour follows a British diplomat who discovers that his wife is having an affair — not with another man, but with a chimpanzee named Max. Rather than treating the premise as simple farce, Oshima develops it into a cool, absurd, and unsettling examination of marriage, jealousy, sexuality, social performance, and bourgeois respectability.

The film was produced by Serge Silberman and features major European collaborators including Jean-Claude Carrière, cinematographer Raoul Coutard, composer Michel Portal, and production designer Pierre Guffroy. Its deadpan tone, elegant production values, and provocative central conceit make it one of Oshima’s most distinctive international works.

Poster design
This Japanese B2 preserves the iconic Roland Topor artwork: a large, surreal pastel illustration of a chimpanzee’s head, rendered in bold red, orange, white, and blue-grey tones. The image is immediately strange, humorous, and unsettling, perfectly matching the film’s ambiguous mixture of satire, erotic unease, and absurdist social commentary.

The lower white field retains the clean French layout, with the title Max mon amour written in a distinctive black handwritten script. Beneath it, the French production credits read:

SERGE SILBERMAN PRÉSENTE
UN FILM DE NAGISA OSHIMA
AVEC CHARLOTTE RAMPLING ET ANTHONY HIGGINS

This deliberately spare composition gives the poster a refined gallery-like quality. It is not a sensational campaign image, but a sophisticated art-house design built around Topor’s unmistakable visual language.

Condition
Mint condition. Please review the photos; they show the exact poster for sale.

This poster is an original Japanese theatrical B2 from the 1987 first-release campaign.
It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

It is nearly 40 years old!

Certificate of Authenticity included.