Art of Japanese Monsters Hardcover Movie Poster Book

[kpa]

Sean Linkenback (Unauthorized Guide to Godzilla Collectibles) has a new hardcover book, The Art of Japanese Monsters: Godzilla, Gamera and Science Fiction Film Art From Around the World, coming this May. A complete reference guide to Japanese science fiction film posters from 1954 to present, the book will feature over 650 posters and lobby cards from 20 different countries.

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2014 ... -this-may/

[klen7]

Thanks for the info. At $60 its a bit of a stretch, but 230 pages and Hardcover will probably be enough to convince me to make some shelf space

Side note... the Diamond solicit mentions "Mature Themes"

[gila-monster]

This has been a long time coming, I am very much looking forward to this. Here's hoping the image resolution is nice.

[MouthForWar]

Anyone know where I can pre order this?

[DannyBeane]

This will be a must buy for me. I want to get more serious about collecting kaiju posters. I feel like the Godzilla series has some of the best poster artwork I've ever seen.

[klen7]

[kpa]

SciFi Japan has an exclusive sneak peek at Sean Linkenback’s new book, The Art of Japanese Monsters.

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2014 ... k-preview/

[Dr Kain]

I want this...

I know what I'm going to tell one of my friends to get me for my birthday next month since he loves to buy me art books I never look at after a week.

[gila-monster]

Mine shipped today. I've been looking forward to a book like this for a long time! I'll see if I can post pictures of it when it arrives if anyone is interested.

[Dr Kain]

One of my friends gave me this today as a late birthday present and it is pretty damn good. There are movies in here I have never heard of before, like one called Half Human.

I do need to ask though, what does it mean by 3 sheet poster and 8 sheet poster?

[The Shadow]

That's a reference to poster size. A typical movie poster (that you'd see at a theater) is called a one sheet (approx. 27 inches by 40 inches today). One Sheets are usually displayed vertically, as you increase in size the actually poster may be displayed horizontally.

A three sheet poster is about 3 times the size of a one sheet, about 41 inches by 81 inches. An 8 sheet would be roughly 8 times the size of a one sheet, at that size it's probably a poster intended to be used on a billboard. Bigger posters used to be a common occurrence (and of course billboard sized posters are still used today), but I think the studios typically stick with one sheets nowadays and use standees for the big stuff in theater lobbies.

[Dr Kain]

So the book overall was really awesome and I am glad to have it, but I cannot help but feel the last little bit was rushed. There is just so little in the way of posters for the movies from the 2000s in there.

Oh, and there are quite a bit to spelling errors and mistakes made throughout the book. Other than that, I love it because it features most of the posters that were pictured in the booklets of my old Region 2 DVDs.

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[klen7]

i got to say the weirdest thing about this book is that it goes from left to right! I am so used to my Godzilla art books being Japanese and having to go right to left.

I did have a Toho/Godzilla posters book already, but this one has a lot more, plus it has a nice hardcover. Good work Sean Linkenback.

[lhb412]

I was disappointed to miss this one, so I'm happy to report amazon has the paperback listed for October.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/099145 ... d_i=507846