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Auction History Result 2j054 THREE TREASURES linen export Japanese 40x87 '59 incredible montage w/Toshiro Mifune & dragon! Date Sold 11/3/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Japanese Movie Poster (measures 40 1/4" x 87" [102 x 221 cm]) (Learn More) Nippon Tanjo (released in the U.S. in 1960 as "The Three Treasures"), the 1959 Hiroshi Inagaki Japanese fantasy adventure religious melodrama ("A spectacular epic of the loves and battles of Prince Yamato, a legendary hero of old Japan"; "Another major achievement of extraordinary power and beauty by the special effects genius, Eiji Tsuhuraya"; "The greatest of Toho's great films of special effects photography."; about the legend of the birth of Shintoism, and Mifune plays two roles; he is an Japanese god who defeats an eight-headed hydra-like dragon, and from its tail he extracts a magic sword, which he gives to the son of the Japanese Emperor [also played by Mifune!], who is sent on a dangerous mission so that he will be killed and his stepbrother can become the new Emperor instead, and the help of the gods and the magic sword allow him to triumph over certain death) starring Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa, Akihiko Hirata, Kyoko Kagawa, Takashi Shimura, and Setsuko Hara. Note that this movie is little known in the United States, except by film buffs, but in many ways, it was a Japanese "answer" to the epic U.S. movie, "The Ten Commandments", made three years earlier. It was over three hours long, and while it has notable fantasy sequences, it deals with the birth of Shintoism in Japan, just as The Ten Commandments dealt with the birth of Judaism in Egypt. It was released in the U.S. in a greatly shortened version (less than two hours), and the existing complete prints are not of high quality. It would seem that someone should surely undertake a complete restoration of this important Japanese movie! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this is a "country of origin" poster for this Japanese movie! It is a Japanese export poster that was printed in Japan, but was intended to be used when the movie was shown in English speaking countries, so it would have been for the under two hour English language version, which focused on the fantastic special effects of the movie (and explains why the main tagline says "Another major achievement of extraordinary power and beauty by the special effects genius, Eiji Tsuhuraya") and while this is true, it seems to be trying to turn it into a Japanese sci-fi/fantasy movie, which is not accurate! Finally, note that we have only auctioned this poster once before, and that was ten years ago, and we think that the poster we auctioned ten years ago has now be re-consigned to us, so it may be one of the only (or the only) existing examples of this poster. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The right panel of this three-panel poster had tears and areas of paper loss around the edges, and it had tears and small paper loss on parts of the folds. The center panel had some faint brown dot stains in the top background area, and it had paper loss at the crossfolds and some small tears and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of some folds. The left panel had paper loss at the top crossfold (falling in the man's cheek under his right eye, with some small tears and tiny paper loss on parts of the folds). Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects (but from any reasonable viewing distance, they will really not be noticeable or distracting). Learn More about condition grades 
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