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This week on Hulu, we’re basking in the summer sun with Too Dang Hot, a free festival of cinematic scorchers. Ranging from an intimate Swedish psychodrama to a Japanese New Wave thriller, this selection of sweat-drenched titles includes Yasujiro Ozu’s Passing Fancy, Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear, Yoshitaro Nomura’s Stakeout, Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence, Nagisa Oshima’s Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, and Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams.

Also featured in this sizzling lineup is the 1991 film Heat Wave, the penultimate work by legendary director Hideo Gosha. Unavailable on disc, this compelling crime drama centers on a young woman who follows in her late father’s footsteps by joining the gambling underworld, only to come face-to-face with his killer at a game. Shot by renowned cinematographer Fujio Morita and featuring a score by frequent Kurosawa collaborator Masaru Sato, Heat Wave is a merciless look at the wages of vanity and corruption.

Watch the film below, or over at Hulu—and remember, if you subscribe to Hulu for just $7.99 a month, you can see more than 900 Criterion films commercial-free, anytime.

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