“The Outlaw Josey Wales” (アウトロー), Original Japanese Movie Poster 1976, First Release, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) E70

This is an original Japanese B2 poster printed in 1976 for the first domestic theatrical release of The Outlaw Josey Wales (アウトロー), produced by Malpaso Company and released in Japan by Warner Bros. (Warner Communications). First-issue Japanese posters for Eastwood’s Bicentennial-year Western are prized by collectors of 1970s American cinema and Clint Eastwood material.

Film background
Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, the film adapts Forrest Carter’s novel about Missouri farmer Josey Wales, whose family is murdered during the Civil War, forcing him onto the run as a guerilla fighter and later an outlaw heading west. Along the way he gathers a makeshift family—including settlers and Native companions—while evading Union pursuers and bounty hunters. A cornerstone of the revisionist Western, it blends elegy, frontier survival, and Eastwood’s laconic toughness.

Poster design
The Japanese artwork presents an intense painted close-up of Eastwood, mouth open in a battle cry, raising twin revolvers. Speed lines carve across the pale ground, while a cavalry of silhouetted riders charges along the lower register. The bold red katakana logotype 「アウトロー」 anchors the base; the English header reads “CLINT EASTWOOD THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES …an army of one.” Vertical blue copy at right references the U.S. Bicentennial, situating the release historically. The Eirin mark appears at lower right, confirming first domestic issue.

This poster is in excellent condition (please refer to the imagery, both front and back, of the exact poster for sale).

It is 49 years old.

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

Certificate of Authenticity included.

E70