“Teorema” (テオレマ), Original Release Japanese Movie Poster 1970 (film 1968), Ultra Rare, STB Size (51 x 145cm) O247
This towering STB (tatekan) poster—almost five feet tall—was printed only for the film’s first Japanese run in 1970 and issued in far smaller numbers than standard B2s. Surviving examples for sought-after titles such as Teorema are exceptionally scarce and prized by collectors.
Teorema (internationally retitled “Theorem”) is Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 allegorical drama starring Terence Stamp, Laura Betti, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti and Anne Wiazemsky. A mysterious visitor seduces every member of an upper-middle-class Milanese household, then vanishes—leaving each radically transformed. Themes of divine incarnation, sexuality and bourgeois disintegration made the picture both controversial and influential. (Venice Film Festival, OCIC Award 1968.)
Poster design
Bold, calligraphic kanji in sky-blue, green and plum cascade down the length of the sheet, framing a dream-like collage of the household’s “possessed” family.
Pasolini’s name and cast are rendered vertically in fine typograph, preserving the Italian art-film aesthetic while matching Toho/Towa studio branding.
The STB format allows the composition to breathe; full tatekan sheets like this were typically pasted outside major theatres and seldom saved.
About STB (Tatekan) posters
Japanese STB / tatekan posters were tall standing-board advertisements, printed in two pieces to be pasted together vertically for cinema display, typically measuring around 20 × 58 inches. Because they were made for prominent theatrical use rather than long-term preservation, survival rates are dramatically lower than for standard posters.
It is over 57 years old!
This poster is in very good+ unrestored condition. Please refer to the detailed imagery (both front and back) as this is the exact poster that is for sale.
This poster was previously displayed in the cinema and shows signs of use - it has small pinholes, and also the films title in Japanese katagana stuck on in three locations on the lower panel - see additional close up imagery provided. We have taken this into account when pricing. Once framed, this poster will display excellently.
It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
