Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Japanese Mr. Majestyk Film Poster
From the site: Cinema is Dope.
Japanese Poster Appreciation Month - January 2009
Charles Bronson Day
Welcome to the Charles Bronson Day sub-part of the month long celebration of Japanese posters here at CID. Today I will be featuring posters from these of Bronson’s films: Hard Times, Mr. Majestyk and Violent City (aka The Family).
Artwork for Richard Fleischer’s Mr. Majestyk courtesy of Mike Malloy. I like the idea of this poster by having a crazed Bronson appearing ready to gun down all bad guys in sight with a backdrop of a huge explosion and some various pieces of action in a collage below. However, it just doesn’t all quiet come together like it should, largely because the particular image of Bronson feels like it has too much of a “deer in the headlights” look than a “Bronson in bloody hell rage” look. R
Dutch Forum member Jade writes:
The main title at the bottom of the poster, is in Katakana characters.
The Japanese usually use these characters to convert foreign words (usually English) into Japanese.
It’s interesting that the title is simply ‘Majestyk’ - no mention of Mr. (except the English underneath.)
The closest way it can be translated into these characters, and indeed Japanese is:
Ma jye su tikku
(マ ジェ ス ティック）
