{"product_id":"phaedra-死んでもいい-original-japanese-movie-poster-1962-b2-size-51-5-72-8-cm-g256","title":"“Phaedra” \/ 「死んでもいい」, Original Japanese Movie Poster 1962, B2 Size (51.5 × 72.8 cm) G256","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"94\" data-end=\"327\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eThis is an \u003cstrong data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"147\"\u003eoriginal Japanese B2 theatrical poster\u003c\/strong\u003e printed for the original Japanese release of \u003cem data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"202\"\u003ePhaedra\u003c\/em\u003e \/ 「死んでもいい」, Jules Dassin’s 1962 romantic psychological drama starring \u003cstrong data-start=\"273\" data-end=\"326\"\u003eMelina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, and Raf Vallone\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"329\" data-end=\"632\"\u003eA modern reworking of the ancient Greek myth of Phaedra, the film combines classical tragedy, European art-house style, emotional intensity, and doomed erotic obsession. This striking Japanese poster presents the film through a bold, highly dramatic design tailored specifically for the Japanese market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"653\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"653\"\u003eFilm background\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"655\" data-end=\"798\"\u003eSet within the world of immense wealth and emotional isolation, the film follows Phaedra, the second wife of a powerful Greek shipping magnate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"1031\"\u003eAlthough married to Thanos, a wealthy and commanding older man, Phaedra becomes drawn into a dangerous and forbidden relationship with his son Alexis, a troubled young man adrift between privilege, alienation, and self-destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1033\" data-end=\"1206\"\u003eTheir affair develops into an all-consuming emotional and physical attachment, set against glamorous European surroundings yet shadowed by guilt, secrecy, and inevitability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1359\"\u003eAs the relationship intensifies, the consequences become catastrophic, exposing the destructive force of desire and the impossibility of escaping fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1361\" data-end=\"1470\"\u003eDirected and produced by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1386\" data-end=\"1402\"\u003eJules Dassin\u003c\/strong\u003e, the screenplay was written by Jules Dassin and Margarita Liberaki.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1472\" data-end=\"1520\"\u003eThe music was composed by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1498\" data-end=\"1519\"\u003eMikis Theodorakis\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1522\" data-end=\"1604\"\u003eThe principal cast includes \u003cstrong data-start=\"1550\" data-end=\"1603\"\u003eMelina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, and Raf Vallone\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1606\" data-end=\"1776\"\u003eThe film reunited Dassin and Mercouri following the major international success of \u003cem data-start=\"1689\" data-end=\"1706\"\u003eNever on Sunday\u003c\/em\u003e, and gave Mercouri another of her most memorable tragic screen roles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1778\" data-end=\"1993\"\u003eAnthony Perkins, already internationally famous after \u003cem data-start=\"1832\" data-end=\"1840\"\u003ePsycho\u003c\/em\u003e, brought a tense, vulnerable, and emotionally unstable quality to Alexis, helping to make the central relationship especially unsettling and compelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1995\" data-end=\"2012\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1995\" data-end=\"2012\"\u003ePoster design\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2014\" data-end=\"2114\"\u003eThe poster uses a dramatic split composition built around sensuality, emotional danger, and tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2116\" data-end=\"2418\"\u003eThe upper two-thirds are dominated by a large, warm-toned image of \u003cstrong data-start=\"2183\" data-end=\"2244\"\u003eMelina Mercouri and Anthony Perkins in an intense embrace\u003c\/strong\u003e. Mercouri’s blonde hair and upward gaze contrast with Perkins’ tilted profile, while their intertwined bodies create an image of overwhelming desire and emotional surrender.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2420\" data-end=\"2560\"\u003eThe scene is rendered in a hazy, glowing palette of amber, gold, flesh tones, and shadow, giving the image a dreamlike and feverish quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2562\" data-end=\"2618\"\u003eAcross the top margin, the green Japanese tagline reads:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2620\" data-end=\"2656\"\u003e「生命をかけて 切なく、身も心もしびれる愛の情感／ただ…燃える 燃える」\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2658\" data-end=\"2757\"\u003e“A painful, life-risking emotion of love that numbs both body and soul \/ Simply… burning, burning.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2759\" data-end=\"2841\"\u003eThis line perfectly captures the mood of doomed passion at the centre of the film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2843\" data-end=\"2919\"\u003eBelow the embrace appears a smaller line of text introducing the picture as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2921\" data-end=\"2947\"\u003e「太陽の国ギリシャの恋の物語 魅力溢れる不朽の名作」\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2949\" data-end=\"3046\"\u003e“A love story from Greece, the land of the sun — an immortal masterpiece overflowing with charm.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3048\" data-end=\"3118\"\u003eThe middle section carries the principal cast names in green katakana:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3120\" data-end=\"3157\"\u003e「メリナ・メルクーリ\u003cbr data-start=\"3130\" data-end=\"3133\"\u003eアソソニー・パーキンス\u003cbr data-start=\"3144\" data-end=\"3147\"\u003e〔ラフ・バローネ〕」\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3159\" data-end=\"3182\"\u003efollowed by the credit:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3184\" data-end=\"3201\"\u003e「ジュールス・ダッシン製作／監督」\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3203\" data-end=\"3243\"\u003e“Produced and directed by Jules Dassin.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3245\" data-end=\"3314\"\u003eThe lower-middle section is dominated by the enormous Japanese title:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3316\" data-end=\"3324\"\u003e「死んでもいい」\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3326\" data-end=\"3508\"\u003eThe title is rendered in a large, elegant orange brush-style script, giving the design a distinctly Japanese theatrical feeling while also reinforcing the film’s emotional extremity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3510\" data-end=\"3556\"\u003eBeneath it appears the original English title:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3558\" data-end=\"3569\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"3558\" data-end=\"3569\"\u003ePhaedra\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3571\" data-end=\"3597\"\u003ein a flowing white script.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3599\" data-end=\"3913\"\u003eThe bottom section shifts abruptly in tone. A dense field of upright lit matches forms a threatening visual barrier, from which emerges a stern portrait of \u003cstrong data-start=\"3755\" data-end=\"3770\"\u003eRaf Vallone\u003c\/strong\u003e. He faces directly forward with a blood-stained hand raised near his chest, introducing a note of reckoning, violence, and tragic consequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3915\" data-end=\"4071\"\u003eThis contrast between the sensual upper composition and the severe lower imagery gives the poster a powerful sense of escalation—from desire to destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4073\" data-end=\"4164\"\u003eAt the bottom right, the poster notes Japanese distribution by \u003cstrong data-start=\"4136\" data-end=\"4163\"\u003eUnited Artists of Japan\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4166\" data-end=\"4188\"\u003e「日本ユナイテッド・アーチスツ映画会社提供」\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4190\" data-end=\"4205\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"4190\" data-end=\"4205\"\u003eDesign note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4207\" data-end=\"4344\"\u003eThe poster’s individual designer is uncredited, as was common with Japanese theatrical advertising for imported films during this period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4346\" data-end=\"4517\"\u003eThe layout combines photographic source imagery with a highly stylised Japanese title treatment and a carefully constructed emotional contrast between passion and tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4519\" data-end=\"4762\"\u003eThe upper embrace, smoky shadows, and glowing colours present the film as intensely erotic and emotionally overwhelming, while the lower field of burning matches and the severe portrait of Vallone introduce a darker sense of judgment and ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4764\" data-end=\"4957\"\u003eThe Japanese title 「死んでもいい」 — literally “I Don’t Care If I Die” or “Even If I Die” — is especially powerful, transforming the film’s tragic mood into a direct and emotionally charged statement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4959\" data-end=\"5159\"\u003eIts unusual visual structure, expressive typography, and dramatic use of colour make it a particularly memorable example of Japanese poster design for a European literary melodrama of the early 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5161\" data-end=\"5177\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"5161\" data-end=\"5177\"\u003eRelease note\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5179\" data-end=\"5236\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"5179\" data-end=\"5188\"\u003ePhaedra\u003c\/em\u003e was produced and released theatrically in 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5238\" data-end=\"5279\"\u003eIt was released in Japan under the title:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5281\" data-end=\"5289\"\u003e「死んでもいい」\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5291\" data-end=\"5376\"\u003eThis poster was printed for the film’s \u003cstrong data-start=\"5330\" data-end=\"5375\"\u003eoriginal 1962 Japanese theatrical release\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5378\" data-end=\"5455\"\u003eIt is a standard Japanese B2-size theatrical poster, measuring approximately:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5457\" data-end=\"5496\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"5457\" data-end=\"5496\"\u003e51.5 × 72.8 cm \/ 20.3 × 28.7 inches\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5498\" data-end=\"5594\"\u003eIt is an original period Japanese cinema poster, not a later reproduction or commercial reprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5596\" data-end=\"5609\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"5596\" data-end=\"5609\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5611\" data-end=\"5768\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"5611\" data-end=\"5635\"\u003eExcellent condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e A highly attractive example with rich colour, striking photographic imagery, clear typography, and excellent overall display impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5770\" data-end=\"6068\"\u003eThere are light signs of age and handling consistent with an original Japanese theatrical poster from 1962, including gentle fold wear, minor surface creasing, slight edge and corner wear, and age-related toning visible from the reverse. 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The front presents extremely well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6218\" data-end=\"6238\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"6218\" data-end=\"6238\"\u003eReference: G256.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6240\" data-end=\"6320\"\u003ePlease review the photographs carefully, as they show the exact poster for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6322\" data-end=\"6419\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"6322\" data-end=\"6419\"\u003eThis is an original 1962 Japanese theatrical poster.\u003cbr data-start=\"6376\" data-end=\"6379\"\u003eIt is not a reproduction or a reprint.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6421\" data-end=\"6453\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"6421\" data-end=\"6453\"\u003eIt is now over 60 years old.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"6455\" data-end=\"6496\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"6455\" data-end=\"6496\" data-is-last-node=\"\"\u003eCertificate of Authenticity included.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Japan Poster Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57083676623226,"sku":null,"price":300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/8859\/4591\/files\/wall-shelf-with-ornaments-2026-07-18T111824.495.jpg?v=1784341222","url":"https:\/\/japanposter.co.uk\/products\/phaedra-%e6%ad%bb%e3%82%93%e3%81%a7%e3%82%82%e3%81%84%e3%81%84-original-japanese-movie-poster-1962-b2-size-51-5-72-8-cm-g256","provider":"Japan Poster Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}