Past Exhibitions

  • January 16 - February 24, 2019 *Special exhibition in Kyoto

Masterpieces of French Film Poster
Selections from NFAJ Digital Collection

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For more detailed information, please see the following page (in Japanese) .

Organized by the National Film Archive of Japan and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto


 The National Film Archive of Japan (NFAJ) and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto are presenting an exhibit titled “A Selection of French Movie Poster Masterpieces.”

The National Film Archive of Japan (NFAJ) is the only national institution of films in Japan that has continuously collected and preserved motion pictures as cultural assets and actively screened them. However, non-film materials—among them posters, stills, scenarios, press materials, equipment, and books—also form an important part of the archive’s collection.
NFAJ is currently in the process of digitalizing those items to expand their use and improve their accessibility. In terms of posters alone, the collection currently boasts some 59,000 items, and NFAJ anticipates that their digitalization will make high-precision reproduction possible and thus open the door to new uses for them.

As an undertaking to utilize digitalized archive resources, we have selected ten large posters that are representative of France’s movie poster tradition and made high-quality reproductions of them. The reproductions have been taken from NFAJ in Tokyo for display in the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. All of the posters were formerly in the collection of Shingaiei Haikyu Co. Ltd., an importer of French films that was established following the Second World War. We hope that visitors to the exhibition will gain some appreciation of the interesting and historical qualities of movie posters and rediscover the richness of a film culture that has enchanted audiences for generations.

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