My style icon: Tatsuya Nakadai in the terrific 1975 Natsume Soseki adaptation I AM A CAT.

Here’s a bunch of different size Alien posters from different countries posteritati.com/film/268/alien

Every country has different movie poster sizes, my Harakiri one is an Italian locandina which is 13x28, a perfect size for smaller areas

That’s a Japanese STB Tatekan poster (20”x58”). Japan has other sizes too:

I met him briefly in NYC where he used to travel to annually as he was a big fan of Broadway musicals

Yojimbo, Sanjuro, High and Low, Kagemusha, and Ran with Akira Kurosawa, as well as The Sword of Doom, The Face of Another and so many others. (This poster from Kagemusha and the one above from Harakiri hang in my apartment)

Oh damn! One of my all time favorite actors. I met him briefly (apparently he loved Broadway shows and used to visit NYC annually on which occasion MoMI would screen one of his films and invite him for a Q&A)

Shortly before 1930 all the alphanium that would be used against the Bolshies on the Eastern Front had already been born