{"product_id":"mirror-original-japanese-first-release-movie-poster-1980-b2-size-51-73-cm-l285","title":"“Mirror”, Original Japanese First Release Movie Poster 1980, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) L285","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"426\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eThis is an \u003cstrong data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"195\"\u003eoriginal Japanese B2 theatrical poster printed for the film’s first Japanese release in 1980\u003c\/strong\u003e. Andrei Tarkovsky’s \u003cem data-start=\"216\" data-end=\"224\"\u003eMirror\u003c\/em\u003e (鏡 \/ \u003cem data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"238\"\u003eKagami\u003c\/em\u003e; Russian title: ЗЕРКАЛО \/ \u003cem data-start=\"265\" data-end=\"274\"\u003eZerkalo\u003c\/em\u003e) was produced by Mosfilm in 1975 and released theatrically in Japan by \u003cstrong data-start=\"346\" data-end=\"387\"\u003eNihonkai Eiga (日本海映画) on 14 June 1980\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"428\" data-end=\"801\"\u003eStarring \u003cstrong data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"494\"\u003eMargarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovsky, Ignat Daniltsev,\u003c\/strong\u003e and Filipp Yankovsky, the film is Tarkovsky’s most intimate and autobiographical work. This exceptional Japanese first-release design combines monumental typography, layered imagery, and poetic text to evoke the film’s central themes of \u003cstrong data-start=\"732\" data-end=\"800\"\u003ememory, childhood, loss, family, and the elusive passage of time\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"803\" data-end=\"822\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"803\" data-end=\"822\"\u003eFilm background\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"824\" data-end=\"1143\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"824\" data-end=\"832\"\u003eMirror\u003c\/em\u003e does not follow a conventional linear narrative. Instead, it unfolds through the fragmented memories of an unseen narrator, moving fluidly between his childhood before the Second World War, his family’s wartime experiences, dreams, historical newsreel footage, and the emotional difficulties of his adult life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1145\" data-end=\"1464\"\u003eMargarita Terekhova performs the dual roles of the narrator’s mother, Maria, and his former wife, Natalia, intentionally blurring the distinction between memory and present experience. The adult narrator is heard but never fully seen, while members of Tarkovsky’s own family—including his mother—appear within the film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1466\" data-end=\"1810\"\u003eDirected by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1478\" data-end=\"1498\"\u003eAndrei Tarkovsky\u003c\/strong\u003e from a screenplay written with Aleksandr Misharin, the film was photographed by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1579\" data-end=\"1597\"\u003eGeorgy Rerberg\u003c\/strong\u003e and scored by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1612\" data-end=\"1631\"\u003eEduard Artemyev\u003c\/strong\u003e. Poems written by Tarkovsky’s father, \u003cstrong data-start=\"1670\" data-end=\"1690\"\u003eArseny Tarkovsky\u003c\/strong\u003e, are read over the images, further dissolving the boundaries between autobiography, family history, cinema, and poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1812\" data-end=\"2133\"\u003eInitially granted only a restricted domestic release in the Soviet Union, \u003cem data-start=\"1886\" data-end=\"1894\"\u003eMirror\u003c\/em\u003e was regarded by officials as difficult and excessively personal. It has subsequently become one of the most revered works in world cinema and is frequently described as Tarkovsky’s most personal film. \u003cspan class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2135\" data-end=\"2152\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2135\" data-end=\"2152\"\u003ePoster design\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2154\" data-end=\"2267\"\u003eThis Japanese B2 features a \u003cstrong data-start=\"2182\" data-end=\"2266\"\u003ebold, highly original composition dominated by the enormous sky-blue kanji title\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2269\" data-end=\"2291\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2269\" data-end=\"2276\"\u003e「鏡」\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-start=\"2276\" data-end=\"2279\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2279\" data-end=\"2291\"\u003e“Mirror”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2293\" data-end=\"2607\"\u003eThe brush-textured character occupies almost the entire upper half of the poster, functioning simultaneously as typography and as a translucent visual screen. Behind it, indistinct images of flame, domestic interiors, and remembered spaces appear to pass through the title like unstable fragments of consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2609\" data-end=\"2678\"\u003eAbove the kanji, the original Russian title appears in vivid magenta:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2680\" data-end=\"2693\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2680\" data-end=\"2693\"\u003e「ЗЕРКАЛО」\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2695\" data-end=\"3044\"\u003eThe lower half presents a warm portrait of \u003cstrong data-start=\"2738\" data-end=\"2778\"\u003eMargarita Terekhova as Maria\/Natalia\u003c\/strong\u003e, smiling gently within a dark domestic interior. The relative intimacy of this image contrasts sharply with the monumental scale of the title above, reflecting the film’s movement between private human experience and the vast, uncontrollable architecture of memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3046\" data-end=\"3126\"\u003eThe upper-right text incorporates lines from the poetry of \u003cstrong data-start=\"3105\" data-end=\"3125\"\u003eArseny Tarkovsky\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3128\" data-end=\"3180\"\u003e「……そして雨。\u003cbr data-start=\"3136\" data-end=\"3139\"\u003eしずくは冷たい枝をつたわり\u003cbr data-start=\"3152\" data-end=\"3155\"\u003e言葉でもハンカチでも\u003cbr data-start=\"3165\" data-end=\"3168\"\u003eぬぐうことはできない。」\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3182\" data-end=\"3196\"\u003eApproximately:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3198\" data-end=\"3310\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"3198\" data-end=\"3310\"\u003e“…And then rain. Drops run down the cold branches, and neither words nor a handkerchief can wipe them away.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3312\" data-end=\"3349\"\u003eThe accompanying campaign copy reads:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3351\" data-end=\"3400\"\u003e「夢…追憶…運命。\u003cbr data-start=\"3360\" data-end=\"3363\"\u003eあやなす心の深奥を\u003cbr data-start=\"3372\" data-end=\"3375\"\u003e華麗な映像で描く\u003cbr data-start=\"3383\" data-end=\"3386\"\u003e鬼才タルコフスキーの世界。」\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3402\" data-end=\"3416\"\u003eApproximately:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3418\" data-end=\"3563\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"3418\" data-end=\"3563\"\u003e“Dreams… memories… destiny. The world of the brilliant Tarkovsky, depicting the woven depths of the human heart through magnificent imagery.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3565\" data-end=\"3894\"\u003eThe left side carries the principal creative credits, including \u003cstrong data-start=\"3629\" data-end=\"3721\"\u003eAndrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Misharin, Georgy Rerberg, Eduard Artemyev, Arseny Tarkovsky,\u003c\/strong\u003e and poetry reader \u003cstrong data-start=\"3740\" data-end=\"3766\"\u003eInnokenty Smoktunovsky\u003c\/strong\u003e. The lower-left corner retains the original \u003cstrong data-start=\"3811\" data-end=\"3893\"\u003eMosfilm 1975 production credit and Nihonkai Eiga Japanese distribution marking\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3896\" data-end=\"4107\"\u003eThe combination of the saturated blue title, magenta Russian lettering, glowing fire imagery, and Terekhova’s intimate portrait gives the poster \u003cstrong data-start=\"4041\" data-end=\"4106\"\u003eexceptional graphic balance and considerable display presence\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4109\" data-end=\"4134\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"4109\" data-end=\"4134\"\u003eCultural significance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4136\" data-end=\"4452\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"4136\" data-end=\"4144\"\u003eMirror\u003c\/em\u003e helped expand the possibilities of cinematic narrative by organising its images according to the associative logic of memory rather than conventional chronology. Childhood, historical trauma, dreams, domestic spaces, poetry, and newsreel material are presented as parts of a single subjective consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4454\" data-end=\"4798\"\u003eIts imagery—including the burning barn, wind passing through a field, water entering abandoned rooms, and a levitating figure—has become central to Tarkovsky’s concept of cinema as \u003cstrong data-start=\"4635\" data-end=\"4659\"\u003e“sculpting in time.”\u003c\/strong\u003e The film’s influence can be traced through generations of filmmakers exploring memory, family history, and non-linear visual storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4800\" data-end=\"4813\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"4800\" data-end=\"4813\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4815\" data-end=\"4894\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"4815\" data-end=\"4829\"\u003eExcellent.\u003c\/strong\u003e Please review the photograph—it shows the exact poster for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4896\" data-end=\"5039\"\u003eThis poster is an \u003cstrong data-start=\"4914\" data-end=\"4986\"\u003eoriginal Japanese theatrical B2 from the 1980 first-release campaign\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr data-start=\"4987\" data-end=\"4990\"\u003eIt is \u003cstrong data-start=\"4996\" data-end=\"5038\"\u003enot a reproduction or a modern reprint\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5041\" data-end=\"5078\"\u003eIt is approximately \u003cstrong data-start=\"5061\" data-end=\"5077\"\u003e46 years old\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5080\" data-end=\"5121\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"5080\" data-end=\"5121\" data-is-last-node=\"\"\u003eCertificate of Authenticity included.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Japan Poster Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57121835024762,"sku":null,"price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/8859\/4591\/files\/wall-shelf-with-ornaments-2026-07-28T170944.302.jpg?v=1785226197","url":"https:\/\/japanposter.co.uk\/products\/mirror-original-japanese-first-release-movie-poster-1980-b2-size-51-73-cm-l285","provider":"Japan Poster Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}