{"product_id":"the-player-ザ-プレイヤー-original-japanese-movie-poster-1993-b2-size-51-73-cm-e264","title":"“The Player” \/ 「ザ・プレイヤー」, Original Japanese Movie Poster 1993, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) E264","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"94\" data-end=\"313\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eThis is an \u003cstrong data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"147\"\u003eoriginal Japanese B2 theatrical poster\u003c\/strong\u003e printed for the 1993 Japanese release of \u003cstrong data-start=\"189\" data-end=\"215\"\u003eThe Player \/ 「ザ・プレイヤー」\u003c\/strong\u003e, Robert Altman’s acclaimed 1992 black comedy and corrosive satire of the Hollywood film industry.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"315\" data-end=\"555\"\u003eAdapted by Michael Tolkin from his own novel, the film follows a powerful studio executive whose attempt to silence a threatening screenwriter draws him into murder, deception, and an increasingly surreal struggle for professional survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"802\"\u003eThe Japanese campaign design dispenses with the film’s famous ensemble cast and celebrity cameos, instead reducing Hollywood ambition to a single, darkly ironic image: a gilded award statuette lying across what resembles a blood-red crime scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"823\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"823\"\u003eFilm background\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"1008\"\u003eThe film centres on \u003cstrong data-start=\"845\" data-end=\"861\"\u003eGriffin Mill\u003c\/strong\u003e, a senior Hollywood studio executive responsible for assessing thousands of screenplay pitches while approving only a small number for production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1010\" data-end=\"1191\"\u003eMill’s privileged position begins to unravel when he receives a succession of anonymous postcards containing death threats, apparently sent by a writer whose screenplay he rejected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1193\" data-end=\"1406\"\u003eBelieving that struggling screenwriter David Kahane is responsible, Mill confronts him outside a cinema. Their encounter becomes violent, and Mill kills Kahane before attempting to disguise the death as a robbery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1408\" data-end=\"1614\"\u003eAs detectives investigate the murder, Mill becomes involved with Kahane’s girlfriend, June Gudmundsdottir, while simultaneously defending his position against a younger executive threatening to replace him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1616\" data-end=\"1848\"\u003eHollywood’s professional machinery continues around him almost without interruption. Writers pitch simplified concepts, executives discuss marketability, and even murder becomes material capable of being reshaped into entertainment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1850\" data-end=\"1976\"\u003eThe film was directed by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1875\" data-end=\"1892\"\u003eRobert Altman\u003c\/strong\u003e, from a screenplay by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1915\" data-end=\"1933\"\u003eMichael Tolkin\u003c\/strong\u003e, with music composed by \u003cstrong data-start=\"1958\" data-end=\"1975\"\u003eThomas Newman\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1978\" data-end=\"2131\"\u003eThe principal cast includes \u003cstrong data-start=\"2006\" data-end=\"2130\"\u003eTim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lyle Lovett, and Brion James\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2340\"\u003eIt also features an extraordinary succession of actors and filmmakers appearing as themselves, including \u003cstrong data-start=\"2238\" data-end=\"2339\"\u003eJulia Roberts, Bruce Willis, Cher, John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Jeff Goldblum, and Burt Reynolds\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2342\" data-end=\"2632\"\u003eAltman uses the structure of a studio thriller to expose Hollywood’s vanity, moral flexibility, creative compromises, and obsession with commercial success. The film’s celebrated opening tracking shot also functions as a deliberate reference to the long takes of classical Hollywood cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2634\" data-end=\"2852\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"2634\" data-end=\"2646\"\u003eThe Player\u003c\/em\u003e received \u003cstrong data-start=\"2656\" data-end=\"2691\"\u003ethree Academy Award nominations\u003c\/strong\u003e, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. At the \u003cstrong data-start=\"2753\" data-end=\"2782\"\u003e1992 Cannes Film Festival\u003c\/strong\u003e, Robert Altman won Best Director and Tim Robbins received Best Actor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2854\" data-end=\"2871\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2854\" data-end=\"2871\"\u003ePoster design\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2873\" data-end=\"2980\"\u003eThis exceptionally restrained Japanese poster is dominated by deep black space and a single symbolic image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2982\" data-end=\"3216\"\u003eA metallic, Oscar-like statuette lies diagonally across the lower half of the composition, illuminated by narrow reflections of gold and amber light. Rather than standing triumphantly, the figure appears collapsed, discarded, or dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3218\" data-end=\"3453\"\u003eBeneath it glows a richly textured red surface resembling blood, damaged celluloid, or a magnified human landscape. The arrangement transforms one of Hollywood’s most familiar emblems of achievement into the apparent victim of a crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3455\" data-end=\"3695\"\u003eThe extensive surrounding darkness gives the object an isolated, forensic quality, as though it has been photographed as evidence. This visual economy closely reflects the film’s fusion of murder mystery, neo-noir, and institutional satire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3697\" data-end=\"3730\"\u003eThe vertical white tagline reads:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3732\" data-end=\"3770\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"3732\" data-end=\"3770\"\u003e「ハリウッドでは、映画のヒットによって\u003cbr data-start=\"3753\" data-end=\"3756\"\u003eすべての罪が償われる。」\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3772\" data-end=\"3783\"\u003eTranslated:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3785\" data-end=\"3846\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"3785\" data-end=\"3846\"\u003e“In Hollywood, every sin can be redeemed by a hit movie.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3848\" data-end=\"3900\"\u003eAbove the title, the smaller explanatory text reads:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3902\" data-end=\"3949\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"3902\" data-end=\"3949\"\u003e「『プレイヤー』とは、ハリウッドの俗語で、業界を意のままに動かす超大物のことである。」\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3951\" data-end=\"3962\"\u003eTranslated:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3964\" data-end=\"4064\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"3964\" data-end=\"4064\"\u003e“‘Player’ is Hollywood slang for a powerful figure capable of controlling the industry at will.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4066\" data-end=\"4186\"\u003eThe top-right corner carries two gold Cannes laurels recording the awards received by \u003cstrong data-start=\"4152\" data-end=\"4185\"\u003eRobert Altman and Tim Robbins\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4188\" data-end=\"4207\"\u003eThe Japanese title:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4209\" data-end=\"4222\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"4209\" data-end=\"4222\"\u003e「ザ・プレイヤー」\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4224\" data-end=\"4400\"\u003eappears in vivid red brush-style lettering across the lower centre. Its energetic calligraphy provides the poster’s only major field of colour beyond the illuminated statuette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4402\" data-end=\"4446\"\u003eDirectly below, the Japanese text announces:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4448\" data-end=\"4479\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"4448\" data-end=\"4479\"\u003e「1992年カンヌ国際映画祭 監督賞・主演男優賞受賞」\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4481\" data-end=\"4492\"\u003eTranslated:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4494\" data-end=\"4572\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"4494\" data-end=\"4572\"\u003e“Winner of Best Director and Best Actor at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4574\" data-end=\"4586\"\u003eThe billing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4588\" data-end=\"4608\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"4588\" data-end=\"4608\"\u003e「ロバート・アルトマン監督作品」\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4610\" data-end=\"4627\"\u003eidentifies it as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4629\" data-end=\"4659\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"4629\" data-end=\"4659\"\u003e“A film by Robert Altman.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4661\" data-end=\"4788\"\u003eThe lower margin contains the principal cast and production credits, together with the Japanese distribution mark of \u003cstrong data-start=\"4778\" data-end=\"4787\"\u003eDaiei\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4790\" data-end=\"5048\"\u003eThe result is a sophisticated and unusually minimalist Japanese poster, using a single corrupted symbol of success to express the film’s central argument: in Hollywood, artistic prestige, criminality, and commercial calculation may all occupy the same frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5050\" data-end=\"5063\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"5050\" data-end=\"5063\"\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5065\" data-end=\"5233\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"5065\" data-end=\"5089\"\u003eExcellent condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e A highly attractive example with rich black areas, strong red and metallic-gold detail, clear typography, and excellent overall display impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"5235\" data-end=\"5391\"\u003eThere are only light signs of age and handling consistent with an original Japanese theatrical poster from this period. 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