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Yokoo Tadanori 橫尾忠則
Diary of a Shinjuku Burglar 新宿泥棒日記
1968
This silkscreen poster for the Japanese new-wave film Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, directed by Oshima Nagisa, demonstrates Yokoo Tadanori’s signature psychedelic colour palette and photomontage technique, echoing the film’s surreal aesthetic. Revolving around the relationship between a young man (played by Yokoo himself) and the clerk (played by Yokoyama Rie) who catches him stealing from a bookshop, the film explores sexuality and identity against the backdrop of 1960s youth culture in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. Oshima uses a combination of black-and-white photography and saturated colour footage to blur the distinction between fantasy and reality. The names of the cast and crew are listed on the poster, with figures cut from film stills placed across the composition. Oshima’s portrait appears at the top, above the title, and images of Yokoo and Yokoyama occupy the centre, encircled by the legs of a man standing on his head from an early scene in the film. Other figures from the film also appear: at the bottom is avant-garde playwright and theatre director Kara Juro, at left is Freudian sexologist Takahashi Tetsu, and at right is Tanabe Moichi, founder of the Shinjuku bookstore Kinokuniya, which is now an international chain.
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