Round 8: Tossup 21

Two answers required. In a film by a director from one of these two countries set in the other, a PI discovers that an English diplomat’s wife is having an affair with a chimpanzee. (-5[1])In 2024, (15[1])a director from (15[1])one of these two (15[1])countries made a gender-swapped remake of his film Serpent’s Path in the (15[1])other. In a 2019 (15[1])film by a director from one of these two countries set in the other, the wife of Ethan Hawke’s character disputes her actress mother’s memoir The Truth. These two countries co-produced (15[1])the notoriously erotic film (*) In the Realm of the Senses. (-5[1])The title of a 1960 film about student activists in one of these two (10[1])countries was inspired by a 1956 documentary from the other, Night and Fog. (10[1])A nonlinear 1959 film about these two countries is about an actress and architect known simply as “Her” and “Him.” For 10 points, name these two countries central to Hiroshima mon amour. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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