Cinematic Love Affair

No longer content to let the bland and generic Hunger Games poster art stink up my blog page, I present to you six evocative and deliciously lurid posters from Toei that truly epitomize why we love and lust for cinema's mysterious pleasures.

Why We Need Cinema...

...because Life is thus described:

The look of the world's a lie, a face made up

O'er graves and fiery depths; and nothing's true

But what is horrible. If man could see

The perils and diseases that he elbows

Each day he walks a mile; which catch at him

Which fall behind and graze him as he passes;

Then would he know that life's a single pilgrim,

Fighting unarmed amongst a thousand soldiers

It is this infinite invisible

Which we must learn to know, and yet to scorn,

And, from scorn of that, regard the world

As from the edge of a far star

Death's Jest Book,

Thomas Lovell Beddoes