Old Hollywood is still alive in Tokyo, thanks to one man

I first heard about Noburo Kubo a few weeks ago, when I came across a picture of his fantastic train station painting of Audrey Hepburn for Breakfast at Tiffany's (left). I couldn't find a lot about him at the time, so I just saved the picture with his name as the title and moved along. Thankfully, Japan Today has an article about this curious artist, so we can all learn more about him.

It turns out that Kubo is possibly the last person left in Japan that still paints old-fashioned movie posters onto billboards, an art that used to be par for the course in the days before Photoshopped montages passing as posters were quickly pasted up on the side of a freeway. It's a really fascinating read and Kubo does such beautiful work, it's a shame that more of his work isn't feature in the article. And if anyone in Japan ever sees his work, especially anything that features Audrey, take plenty of pictures!