初恋・地獄篇 Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
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- Aquirax Uno 宇野亜喜良 8 Designer
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- Poster 2371
- Illustration 393
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- paper 2062
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- offset lithography 648
- illustration 307
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A Movie poster by Aquirax Uno for the 1968 film Hatsukoi: jigokuhen or Nanami: The Inferno of First Love, one of the most well known films by noted Japanese new-wave filmmaker Susumu Hani and co-written by Shuji Terayama.
Aquirax Uno is the alias of artist Uno Akira 宇野亞喜良, a graphic artist known for his femme, psychadelic, often ero-guro (erotic-grotesque) prints and illustrations. He was born in 1934 in Nagoya, Japan. Influenced by his father, who ran an interior decoration business, he began drawing at a young age and studied under the painter Haru Miyawaki.
He popularized the terms イラストレーション "illustration" and イラストレーター"illustrator" in the lexicon of 1960s Japan. Uno has created hundreds of works ranging from advertisments to album covers to theatre posters. He has also served as a curator, stage designer, and artistic director. He continues to be active as one of Japan's foremost illustrators and graphic designers at the age of 91 years old.
