British 30 inch x 40 inch Quad Poster for the 1962 Yasujiro Ozu film starring Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Shinichiro Mikami, Keiji Sada and Mariko Okada.
The poster art is by Peter Strausfeld who was interned during the War with Academy Cinema director George Hoellering. Hoellering asked Strausfeld to produce some posters for the cinema which he did in wood and lino-cuts till his death in 1980.
The Academy Cinema, built in 1913, was saved from conversion to a shopping arcade in 1928 by Elsie Cohen of the original Film Society, who proceeded to run it as an arthouse which is how it was ran till it's closure in 1986.
The posters became a London landmark, in fact very few were used outside of London, resulting in very small print runs of 3-500.
The poster, printed by Ward & Foxlow, is in very good unfolded (rolled) condition with slight creasing at the right edge with a few small tears.