Michael Mann's Heat (1995) is widely regarded as one of the definitive American crime films, a methodical procedural that brought Al Pacino and Robert De Niro together on screen for the first time in a career-defining dual portrait of a detective and a thief bound together by their professionalism. The film's influence on the crime genre, from its cinematography to its celebrated downtown Los Angeles bank robbery sequence, remains profound. This original Japanese B2 was produced for the film's 1996 theatrical release in Japan, where it was promoted as the first genuine screen pairing of the two actors as noted on the poster itself. Original theatrical paper from Mann's Heat, particularly the Japanese campaign materials with their distinct typography and bilingual credit blocks, is consistently sought after by collectors of 1990s American cinema.