Noriyoshi Ohrai, Illustrator of Many Hollywood Movie Posters, Has Died

AmiMoJo writes: While far from a household name, Noriyoshi Ohrai painted some of the most well known Hollywood movie posters, as well as numerous posters and covers for Western and Japanese media alike. His most famous work is probably the Empire Strikes Back international poster, but he also did paintings for Godzilla, The Goonies, Spiderman comics, numerous games and more.

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Re:He will be missed

[Anonymous Coward]

By family and close friends.

and few others.

Fuck you, Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

You made me click Kotaku. Fuck Kotaku and fuck Samzenpus.

If you want to post a story, even a factual one like this, please pick a respectable news source.

Re:Fuck you, Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Samzenpus gets all its SJW articles from Gawker and Jezebel. Kotaku is right there so why not?

Re:Fuck you, Slashdot

[wardrich86]

I'm sorry to hear that Kotaku doesn't cut it for you. Please pick from one of these other sources.

Re:Fuck you, Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not even factual. None of the posters presented were ever used in Hollywood. They are just the movie posters that were used in Japan.

Never heard of this guy and have never seen his work before now either. I guess if you lived in Japan during the 80s this might be a story.

Re:Fuck you, Slashdot

[guises]

sources [bfy.tw].

That's a link to that annoying "Let me Google that for you" site, for anyone who hasn't already clicked on it.

I'm posting to undo my upmod, this kind of asshole snark contributes nothing to a conversation. If you disagree with the GP's comment about Kotaku then by all means disagree. There's no need to be a jerk about it.

We wil miss

[Anonymous Coward]

His majestic work.

Re: We wil miss

[Anonymous Coward]

Dont shame the Japanese guys work with this trash

Re:We wil miss

[Anonymous Coward]

It looks like who ever set up that page forgot to put up the images. It's just some text with blank spots in between.

We all knew him

[U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M]

Even if you had never heard his name before today I'm pretty sure you had seen at least one of his illustration.

Fight for your bitcoins!

Re:We all knew him

[Anonymous Coward]

Nope. I saw all of the non-Jap films presented in the article when they came out in the theatres and have never seen any of those posters. We had different (and I would say better) ones in the west.

or the original source

[MoFoQ]

or the original source: http://mrt.jp/localnews/?newsi...

1027 1749

"Obiturary: World-famous illustrator and Miyazaki City resident, Noriyoshi Ohrai passed away due to pneumonia on the 27th at a hospital in Kunitomi (town). He was 79 years old. Working out of Miyazaki City, Mr. Ohrai was a world-famous illustrator having created posters for "Star Wars" and "Godzilla" series and had won a prefectural culture award a year before last. Wake will be held on the 28th from 7PM and funeral services will be on the 29th from 12:10PM, both at the Priere-Group Hall in Miyazaki City." note, wiki seems to reference cgmagonline.com anyways. also, /. seems to not support Japanese input that well.

Hmm like that?

[Anonymous Coward]

Get "Hollywood" in a headline with some Japanese poster artist?

Nah homies. Hollywood is JEWISH. Fact check me. Reject the hypnosis.

Awesome Japanese Artists

[omfglearntoplay]

With so many great Japanese artists, in the drawing/painting arena, I am willing to bet something in the teachings of writing Japanese Kanji is helpful when learning to draw. Be it attention to detail, hand eye coordination, patience, or some combination I don't know, but I see it time and time again. On topic, this guy was great, and I am sorry to see him go.

R.I.P

[JasonLong3407]

I have a Japanese godzilla poster he made in one of my rooms. It's just sad.