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HIDDEN FORTRESS HIDDEN FORTRESS Italian photobusta medium OR search current auctions Auction History Result 2a0705 HIDDEN FORTRESS linen Italian 18x26 pbusta 1960 Mifune, Kurosawa film inspired Star Wars, rare! Date Sold 4/17/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1960 (from the first release of this movie in Italy) Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Italian Photobusta Movie Poster (pbusta; measures 18" x 26 1/4" [46 x 67 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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this Italian poster, and that was 18 years ago! That poster has now been reconsigned to us, so it is still the only example we have ever auctioned! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster was folded down the middle twice, and it has some creases, scuffs, and fine surface paper loss on parts of those folds. It had pinholes in the corners and a few scuffs scattered in the image. 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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