Heat wave: Akihiko Shiota's roman porno homage Wet Woman in the Wind and Tetsuya Mariko's frenetic Destruction Babies shake up established notions of contemporary Japanese film
High in the saddle: the Western stalwart left his mark on The Magnificent Ambersons, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and Fifth Avenue Girl, but kept coming back home
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