"Kańał" / “Kanal” (地下水道), Original Japanese First-Release Movie Poster 1959, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) O346

This is an original Japanese B2 poster for Andrzej Wajda’s Kańał (Japan title: 地下水道), released in Japan in the late 1950s after the film’s 1957 Cannes Jury Prize triumph. The second part of Wajda’s “War Trilogy,” the film follows a doomed Home Army platoon forced into Warsaw’s sewers during the 1944 Uprising—one of post-war cinema’s most harrowing portraits of resistance and despair.

It is extremely hard to find a first release for this poster in Japan!!

Design
A powerful late-’50s photo-montage: a stark white brush-stroke title 「地下水道」 slices down the left while a luminous close-up of Teresa Izewska dominates the right, her face caught between hope and shadow. Below, mud-streaked fighters crouch beside a sewer grate vignette; bilingual “KANAL” titling and studio marks anchor the base. The palette of bruised magentas, petrol blues, and soot-black textures amplifies the film’s claustrophobic tragedy.

Condition
Very Good+: colors remain strong and the sheet displays excellently. Please review the photos—they show the exact poster for sale.

This poster is an original Japanese theatrical B2 from the first-release campaign.
It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

It is over 65 years old!

Certificate of Authenticity included.