“Three Days of the Condor” (コンドル), Original Release Japanese Movie Poster 1975, B2 Size (51 × 73 cm) ZA1207
This is an original Japanese B2 theatrical poster printed in 1975 for the first Japanese release of Three Days of the Condor, released in Japan under the concise title コンドル (Condor). Directed by Sydney Pollack, the film stars Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, and John Houseman. It opened in Japan on 29 November 1975 through Toho-Towa.
Film background
Released in 1975, the film is one of the defining American conspiracy thrillers of its decade. Adapted from James Grady’s novel Six Days of the Condor, it follows CIA researcher Joe Turner, code name Condor, after the murder of his co-workers throws him into a widening political conspiracy. The combination of Pollack’s direction, Redford’s uneasy intelligence, and Dunaway’s cool, ambiguous presence gives the film its distinctive tone: tense, elegant, and deeply rooted in 1970s paranoia cinema.
Poster design
This is a superb and highly cinematic Japanese design. The upper half is dominated by large painterly close-ups of Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway, set against a stormy sky of blues, greys, and burning orange. Across the centre, the huge white Japanese title コンドル becomes an architectural form in itself, with action scenes, city imagery, chases, and falling figures integrated into and around the lettering. Supporting imagery at lower right adds menace and surveillance, reinforcing the film’s atmosphere of pursuit and hidden power.
What makes the poster especially effective is the way it translates a cerebral thriller into something visually bold and immediate. It has exactly the sort of dramatic graphic impact collectors look for in original Japanese designs of the 1970s, while still preserving the cool, anxious tone of the film.
Condition
Very Good / Excellent. Please review the photos—they show the exact poster for sale.
It is over 51 years old!
It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
