{"product_id":"memories-メモリーズ-original-japanese-home-video-release-promotional-poster-1996-b2-size-51-73-cm-f271-copy","title":"“Memories Deluxe” \/ 「MEMORIES deluxe」, Original Japanese Home Video Promotional Poster 1996, B2 Size (51.5 × 72.8 cm) G300","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"280\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eThis is an \u003cstrong data-start=\"139\" data-end=\"189\"\u003eoriginal Japanese B2 retail promotional poster\u003c\/strong\u003e produced for the premium home-video release of \u003cem data-start=\"237\" data-end=\"247\"\u003eMemories\u003c\/em\u003e \/ 「MEMORIES」 on 25 October 1996.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"282\" data-end=\"558\"\u003eCreated to advertise the \u003cstrong data-start=\"307\" data-end=\"375\"\u003ethree-disc CAV LaserDisc Deluxe Box and simultaneous VHS release\u003c\/strong\u003e, the poster features an extraordinary unified illustration by \u003cstrong data-start=\"438\" data-end=\"457\"\u003eKatsuhiro Otomo\u003c\/strong\u003e, bringing together imagery from all three stories in the celebrated science-fiction anime anthology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"560\" data-end=\"673\"\u003eThis is an original period retail display poster from the 1996 campaign. It is not the theatrical-release poster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"694\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"675\" data-end=\"694\"\u003eFilm background\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"696\" data-end=\"871\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"696\" data-end=\"706\"\u003eMemories\u003c\/em\u003e is an ambitious animated anthology conceived and executive-produced by \u003cstrong data-start=\"778\" data-end=\"797\"\u003eKatsuhiro Otomo\u003c\/strong\u003e, the internationally acclaimed manga artist and filmmaker behind \u003cem data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"870\"\u003eAkira\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"873\" data-end=\"1059\"\u003eOriginally released theatrically in Japan in late 1995, the film consists of three independent science-fiction stories, each directed in a radically different visual and narrative style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1061\" data-end=\"1082\"\u003eThe first episode is:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1084\" data-end=\"1114\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1084\" data-end=\"1114\"\u003e“Magnetic Rose” \/ 「彼女の想いで」\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1116\" data-end=\"1319\"\u003eDirected by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1128\" data-end=\"1145\"\u003eKōji Morimoto\u003c\/strong\u003e, with a screenplay by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1168\" data-end=\"1183\"\u003eSatoshi Kon\u003c\/strong\u003e adapted from Otomo’s short manga, the story follows the crew of a deep-space salvage vessel responding to a mysterious distress signal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1321\" data-end=\"1493\"\u003eThey enter a vast, abandoned station filled with decaying opera sets, holographic memories, and illusions connected to the tragic life of the celebrated singer Eva Friedel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1495\" data-end=\"1636\"\u003eAs the station manipulates their memories and desires, the distinction between physical reality and psychological fantasy begins to collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1638\" data-end=\"1660\"\u003eThe second episode is:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1687\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1662\" data-end=\"1687\"\u003e“Stink Bomb” \/ 「最臭兵器」\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1689\" data-end=\"1849\"\u003eDirected by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1701\" data-end=\"1719\"\u003eTensai Okamura\u003c\/strong\u003e, this darkly comic story follows Nobuo Tanaka, an ordinary laboratory employee who accidentally consumes an experimental capsule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1851\" data-end=\"2093\"\u003eWithout understanding what has happened, Nobuo becomes the centre of an expanding biochemical catastrophe. His body produces a lethal cloud that destroys everything around him as he innocently attempts to deliver classified material to Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2095\" data-end=\"2116\"\u003eThe third episode is:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2118\" data-end=\"2146\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2118\" data-end=\"2146\"\u003e“Cannon Fodder” \/ 「大砲の街」\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2148\" data-end=\"2334\"\u003eWritten and directed by \u003cstrong data-start=\"2172\" data-end=\"2191\"\u003eKatsuhiro Otomo\u003c\/strong\u003e, this visually distinctive episode depicts an entire industrial city organised around the daily firing of enormous cannons at an unseen enemy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2336\" data-end=\"2539\"\u003eEvery citizen contributes to the war machine. Children are educated to become artillery officers, adults labour in ammunition factories, and the city’s entire culture is built around endless bombardment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2541\" data-end=\"2787\"\u003eThe film combines science fiction, psychological horror, satire, war imagery, and technological spectacle. 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His heavy green uniform, weathered glove, and expression reflect the regimented industrial society of Otomo’s episode.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4725\" data-end=\"4862\"\u003eBehind him stretches the city of cannons, filled with enormous gun emplacements, towers, factories, and oppressive military architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4864\" data-end=\"4915\"\u003eThe central portion represents \u003cstrong data-start=\"4895\" data-end=\"4915\"\u003e“Magnetic Rose.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4917\" data-end=\"5139\"\u003eThe elegant face of opera singer \u003cstrong data-start=\"4950\" data-end=\"4965\"\u003eEva Friedel\u003c\/strong\u003e occupies the heart of the image. Her carefully styled dark hair, red lips, jewellery, and composed expression evoke the glamour preserved within the abandoned space station.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5141\" data-end=\"5247\"\u003eHer beauty contrasts with the psychological horror and decay underlying the episode’s elaborate illusions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5249\" data-end=\"5429\"\u003eThe narrow division through her portrait creates the impression that she exists between different realities—part memory, part artificial reconstruction, and part haunting presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5431\" data-end=\"5477\"\u003eThe right portion represents \u003cstrong data-start=\"5460\" data-end=\"5477\"\u003e“Stink Bomb.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5479\" data-end=\"5593\"\u003eNobuo Tanaka appears in profile, holding the small red-and-white experimental capsule that begins the catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5595\" data-end=\"5754\"\u003eHis pale hand and the tiny pill are given extraordinary prominence, despite the enormous consequences that follow from such an apparently insignificant object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5756\" data-end=\"5910\"\u003eBehind him appear modern research buildings and mountainous scenery associated with the laboratory environment from which the biological emergency begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5912\" data-end=\"6044\"\u003eThe three segments overlap through geometric panels, transparent profiles, city fragments, machinery, and architectural backgrounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6046\" data-end=\"6221\"\u003eAn arched form behind the characters resembles both a space helmet and a framing device, visually unifying stories that otherwise use substantially different animation styles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6223\" data-end=\"6238\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"6223\" data-end=\"6238\"\u003eArtist note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6240\" data-end=\"6280\"\u003eThe promotional text prominently states:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6282\" data-end=\"6303\"\u003e「BOX内箱イラストは大友克洋描き下ろし」\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6305\" data-end=\"6380\"\u003e“The illustration inside the box is a newly drawn work by Katsuhiro Otomo.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6382\" data-end=\"6474\"\u003eThe VHS promotion similarly identifies its jacket illustration as an original Otomo drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6476\" data-end=\"6651\"\u003eThis poster reproduces the specially created \u003cstrong data-start=\"6521\" data-end=\"6590\"\u003eKatsuhiro Otomo artwork prepared for the 1996 home-media campaign\u003c\/strong\u003e, rather than simply reusing the principal theatrical poster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6653\" data-end=\"6844\"\u003eOtomo’s composition successfully combines the rounded military caricature of \u003cem 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anthology format, while the overlapping faces and environments suggest shared themes of memory, technology, identity, militarism, and human vulnerability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"7361\" data-end=\"7497\"\u003eThe clean graphic structure also allows the detailed illustration to remain readable despite incorporating imagery from all three films.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"7499\" data-end=\"7732\"\u003eIts combination of original Otomo artwork, LaserDisc-era design, Japanese retail typography, and detailed technical specifications makes it a particularly compelling artefact from the height of the premium Japanese home-video market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"7734\" data-end=\"7750\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"7734\" data-end=\"7750\"\u003eRelease note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"7752\" data-end=\"7817\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"7752\" data-end=\"7762\"\u003eMemories\u003c\/em\u003e was originally released theatrically in Japan in 1995.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"7819\" data-end=\"7981\"\u003eThis poster was printed for the film’s \u003cstrong data-start=\"7858\" data-end=\"7905\"\u003e25 October 1996 Japanese home-video release\u003c\/strong\u003e, advertising the premium LaserDisc Deluxe Box and simultaneous VHS edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"7983\" data-end=\"8061\"\u003eIt is a standard Japanese B2-size promotional poster, measuring approximately:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"8063\" data-end=\"8102\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"8063\" data-end=\"8102\"\u003e51.5 × 72.8 cm \/ 20.3 × 28.7 inches\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"8104\" data-end=\"8210\"\u003eIt is an original 1996 Japanese retail promotional poster, not a later reproduction or commercial reprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"8212\" data-end=\"8225\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"8212\" data-end=\"8225\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"8227\" data-end=\"8382\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"8227\" data-end=\"8252\"\u003eVery Good+ to Excellent condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e A highly attractive example with strong colour, crisp illustrated detail, clear typography, and excellent overall display impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"8384\" data-end=\"8573\"\u003eThere are light signs of age and retail handling, including shallow surface creasing and waviness, minor edge and corner wear, and a few small surface marks visible under close examination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"8575\" data-end=\"8790\"\u003eThe reverse shows light handling marks together with a tiny amount of\u003cstrong data-start=\"8630\" data-end=\"8703\"\u003e adhesive residue near the upper edge\u003c\/strong\u003e, consistent with the poster having been displayed during its original retail campaign.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"8792\" data-end=\"8954\"\u003eThese signs do not significantly detract from the artwork. The deep black background remains strong, the colours are vivid, and the front presents extremely well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"8956\" data-end=\"8976\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"8956\" data-end=\"8976\"\u003eReference: G300.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"8978\" data-end=\"9058\"\u003ePlease review the photographs carefully, as they show the exact poster for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"9060\" data-end=\"9169\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"9060\" data-end=\"9169\"\u003eThis is an original 1996 Japanese home-video promotional poster.\u003cbr data-start=\"9126\" data-end=\"9129\"\u003eIt is not a reproduction or a reprint.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"9171\" data-end=\"9198\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"9171\" data-end=\"9198\"\u003eIt is now 30 years old.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"9200\" data-end=\"9241\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"9200\" data-end=\"9241\" data-is-last-node=\"\"\u003eCertificate of Authenticity included.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Japan Poster Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57084624273786,"sku":null,"price":385.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/8859\/4591\/files\/wall-shelf-with-ornaments-2026-07-18T173658.832.jpg?v=1784363832","url":"https:\/\/japanposter.co.uk\/products\/memories-%e3%83%a1%e3%83%a2%e3%83%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%82%ba-original-japanese-home-video-release-promotional-poster-1996-b2-size-51-73-cm-f271-copy","provider":"Japan Poster Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}