Tag: Japanese chirashi

Roman Holiday

When you need cheering up, you can’t go wrong with a little Audrey in your life!  Here is Ms Hepburn resplendent on this undated Japanese chirashi for the 1953 classic Roman Holiday, the movie that did for Vespas what James Bond did for Aston Martin.  This was Hepburn’s first major movie role, and it won…


Reality Bites

This is a Japanese “chirashi’ I bought recently as a birthday present for my wife. “Chirashi” are doubled-sided B5 flyers which were printed in limited runs to be handed out in movie theatres in Japan upon a movie’s release. They are relatively cheap to collect and being small are easy to store and display.  …