Japan always understood the assignment.
 
While we were arguing about poster sizes, they were over there making this.
 
This is an original SAW II Japanese promotional book—the kind of thing studios don’t do anymore because someone would immediately shut it down in a meeting. It’s loaded with wild, confrontational imagery, stark layouts, and stills that absolutely do not care about your comfort level. It’s bold, unsettling, and way more hardcore than anything we were allowed to put out domestically.
 
These books were created strictly for the Japanese release—never sold to the public, never reprinted, and not meant to survive beyond the campaign. Which makes it kind of amazing that this one did.
 
The lot also includes a signed SAW II DVD, because it felt wrong to separate it from the thing it was trying so aggressively to sell.
 
If you’re into:
international horror ephemera
marketing departments that chose violence
or owning something your friends will flip through and quietly say, “what the hell is this?”
 
…this one belongs on your shelf.
 
Display it proudly.
Or hide it and pull it out when someone says, “they wouldn’t market a movie like that today.”