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Auction History Result 6c089 HIDDEN FORTRESS linen French 1p 1958 Kurosawa, Mascii art of samurai Toshiro Mifune, rare! Date Sold 5/3/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1964 (from the first release of this movie in France) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked French One-Panel "Grande" Movie Poster (1p; measures 45 3/4" x 61" [116 x 155 cm]) (Learn More) Kakushi Toride no San Akunin (released in the U.S. in 1960 as "Hidden Fortress"), the classic 1958 Akira Kurosawa Japanese samurai warrior adventure thriller (George Lucas "borrowed" the plot of the film to make "Star Wars"), starring Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Susumu Fujita, and Takashi Shimura. Note that this well regarded Akira Kurosawa Japanese movie surprisingly only received a limited first release in the U.S., and movie paper from that U.S. release is incredibly rare, for unknown reasons. It also apparently had a limited first release in all other English-speaking countries, again for unknown reasons. In 1984, perhaps because it had been the inspiration for "Star Wars" in 1977, an uncut version of the movie was released in the U.S., with the tagline "U.S. Premiere Uncut Version". This restored version was the full 139-minute original version (previously releases had between 15 minutes and 40 minutes cut). Everyone agrees the uncut version is a masterpiece! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Jean Mascii Important Added Info: Note that we have only auctioned one example of this French one-panel in all our years of auctioning! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at many crossfolds and some darkening and minor wear on parts of several folds. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Learn More about condition grades 
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