Original RKO One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Edward Dmytryk war drama, BEHIND THE RISING SUN (1943) starring Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish, and Robert Ryan. American-educated Taro (Neal) returns to Japan just as the war drums were starting to beat louder and louder. He is drafted, and his horrific service in China hardens him to the atrocities committed by the Japanese army. For a war propaganda movie, it is more even handed than most propaganda films in its portrayal of the Japanese people and the upheaval that the war created in Japanese society. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very good condition– with some fold separations reinforced with archival tissue and a 2″ chip missing from the right border area.

Original RKO One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Gordon Douglas war drama, FIRST YANK INTO TOKYO (1945) starring Tom Neal, Barbara Hale, Marc Cramer, and Richard Loo. This late World War II propaganda film chronicles an American agent who undergoes plastic surgery to make him look Japanese so he can infiltrate Japan and help free an American POW. The disjointed ending is a result of the atomic bomb being dropped before the film was finished, necessitating a whole new finale being thrown together. This original one sheet poster is folded and in fine condition.