Böcker av Kagami Jigoku Kobayashi

Film poster art and design from Japan is renowned as being among the most striking and dynamic in the world, with kanji logograms adding an extra dimension of graphic integration for the Western eye.CINEGRAPHIC¿SCREAMS presents 150 of the very best horror film posters created in Japan in the latter decades of the 20th century, the peak years of creativity for this art-form. This volume focuses on posters designed to promote international productions.The artworks are reproduced in full-colour, full-page format, with films ranging from classic American horror to gothic Hammer phantasies and gore-splattered Italian cine-nightmares of cannibalism and zombie mayhem.

Film poster art and design from Japan is renowned as being among the most striking and dynamic in the world, with kanji logograms adding an extra dimension of graphic integration for the Western eye.CINEGRAPHIC¿SCREAMS 2 presents 50 of the very best horror film posters created in Japan in the latter decades of the 20th century, the peak years of creativity for this art-form. This volume focuses on posters designed to promote indigenous Japanese productions.The artworks are reproduced in full-color, full-page format, with films ranging from classic interpretations of Japanese ghost stories to more modern variations steeped in visceral terror.

Japanese sexploitation cinema of the late 1960s and 1970s was dominated by companies such as Toei and Nikkatsu, whose roman porno brand is among the most well-known of all erotic film series. TOKYO CINEROTIX showcases 100 scenes from Japanese sexploitation films of this period, originally issued by Nikkatsu and other companies as 5 X 7 inch promotion stills. The stills are taken from the personal collection of the book's editor, Kagami Jigoku Kobayashi (also curator of the popular Tokyo Cinegraphix series). TOKYO CINEROTIX presents a stimulating snapshot from a time past to commemorate some of world's classic sexploitation cinema, never explicit but crafted with a uniquely Japanese visual flair for the erotic that can never be recaptured.

Film poster art and design from Japan is renowned as being among the most striking and dynamic in the world, with kanji logograms adding an extra dimension of graphic integration for the Western eye. TOKYO CINEGRAPHIX TWO focuses solely on Japanese cinema, and its infamous ''bad girl'' or ''pinky violence'' blend of sex and crime '' from murdered strippers to female assassins, yakuzamolls, delinquent highschool girls, sword-wielding female gamblers, killer prostitutes, female prisoners, girl gangs and tattooed she-bikers.