Japanese poster for Puberty Blues

A film's international poster – like this Japanese poster for teenage beach movie Puberty Blues (1981) – shows how locally-made films were marketed to overseas audiences. In this poster, the title playfully translates to High School Graffiti: Lessons at the Beach, with the tagline ‘Touch Summer! Love! Sun! Climax of Adolescence!’, and it features imagery of female friendship and surfing. It clearly shows audiences what they could expect from this Australian coming-of-age film, which was adapted from the book by Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey and based on their experiences growing up in Sydney's coastal suburbs in the 1970s.