Obsession (1943) Original Japanese B2 Poster - Japan Premiere 1979 Elisabeth Shue "Akira" is a 1988 Japanese

"Akira" is a 1988 Japanese animated science-fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo

directed by Shin Takakuwa in 1970

this film directed by Dino Risi is a delightful piece of classic European cinema

A niche collectible for students of Japanese film industry history and genre cinema

Obsession (1943) Original Japanese B2 Poster - Japan Premiere 1979 Elisabeth Shue "Akira" is a 1988 JapaneseLuchino Visconti's 1943 debut transposes James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice to the Po valley, where Massimo Girotti's drifter and Clara Calamai's innkeeper's wife plot against her husband. Rights problems over the unlicensed Cain adaptation kept the film out of circulation for decades; it reached Japanese screens for the first time in 1979, billed (Nihon hatsu kokai, "first release in Japan"). Red and black duotone stills stack Girotti's