Hisamitsu Noguchi

Rare Japanese vintage film poster for the 1959 movie 400 Blows.

• Hisamitsu Noguchi (Japanese, 1909-1994).
• Style C.
• Les Films Du Carrosse.
• Unfolded and linen backed.

This exceptionally rare Japanese poster has only surfaced a few times in over twenty years. François Truffaut loved Hisamitsu Noguchi's artwork on this poster so much that he used it in his 1962 film Love at Twenty/L’amour à Vingt Ans, where it featured on the bedroom wall of Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud). The artwork for this poster was also used on a book about Truffaut.