“Scanners” (スキャナーズ), Original Japanese First Release Movie Poster 1981, B3 Size (c. 36 × 51.5 cm) O641

This is an original Japanese B3 poster issued in Japan for the first domestic release of David Cronenberg’s cult SF-horror shocker Scanners (1981)—starring Stephen Lack, Jennifer O’Neill, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. The film opened theatrically in Japan on 23 September 1981 (Toei Yōga release). 

A key early Cronenberg title—famous for its “head explosion” set-piece and its cold corporate paranoia—Scanners has only grown in stature over the decades, now firmly embedded in the canon of late-70s/early-80s cult cinema.

Poster design
A dynamic, illustrated Japanese campaign design that leans hard into the film’s electric, psychic-violence concept: the central “scanner” figure convulses under a corona of crackling energy, surrounded by action vignettes (laboratory imagery, street chaos, and bodies in panic) that sell the film as high-intensity science fiction horror. The bold, dimensional title スキャナーズ crowns the sheet like a heavy-metal logo—pure early-80s impact.

A major bonus with this format: the reverse is fully printed with Japanese text, images, and layout content (synopsis/cast/features), making it a particularly desirable “as-used” piece of Japanese theatrical marketing ephemera.

Condition
Very Good overall. Please review the photos as they show the exact poster for sale.

It is over 44 years old!

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