"The Wrong Man (間違えられた男)", Original First-Release Japanese Movie Poster 1957, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) O258

This is an original Japanese B2 poster printed in 1957 for the first domestic release of Alfred Hitchcock’s stark, true-crime drama The Wrong Man.

One of Hitchcock’s most rigorous “realist” works, the film dramatizes the true case of Christopher Emmanuel “Manny” Balestrero (played by Henry Fonda), a Queens musician wrongly accused of robbery. Shot largely on New York locations with a semi-documentary style, it features a haunting score by Bernard Herrmann and crisp black-and-white cinematography by Robert Burks. Its unsentimental portrait of anxiety, bureaucracy, and identity helped shape generations of filmmakers; Jean-Luc Godard devoted his longest early critical essay to the film, and Martin Scorsese has cited it as an influence on Taxi Driver’s urban paranoia and moral dread.

Poster design
The Japanese title 「間違えられた男」 blazes across the header in jagged orange characters with the small English title The Wrong Man beneath. The central field layers a moody night-street tableau: Fonda’s Manny, hat brim low, glances back under a streetlamp while looming silhouettes frame him—visualizing the theme of surveillance and mistaken identity. A tender vignette of Vera Miles and Fonda embraces the lower register, set against a powder-blue credit band listing Hitchcock (アルフレッド・ヒッチコック), Fonda (ヘンリー・フォンダ), and Miles (ヴェラ・マイルズ). Diagonal Japanese copy touts “the master’s most interior performance of fear and sorrow,” matching the film’s austere tone. The Warner Bros. shield and domestic distributor marks complete the footer.

Condition
Excellent condition. Please review the photos; they show the exact poster for sale.

This poster is an original Japanese theatrical B2 from the 1957 first-release campaign.
It is not a reproduction or a reprint.

It is over 68 years old!

Certificate of Authenticity included.