A Taxing Woman

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Template:Nihongo Template:Efn is a 1987 Japanese film written and directed by Juzo Itami.<ref>Infobox data from {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} and [https://www.imdb.com/{{#if: 0093502

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Itami took inspiration for the movie after entering a higher tax bracket following the success of his first film, The Funeral.

A sequel, A Taxing Woman's Return, featuring some of the same characters but darker in tone, was released in 1988.

PlotEdit

A female tax auditor, Ryōko Itakura, inspects the accounts of various Japanese companies, uncovering hidden incomes and recovering unpaid taxes.

One day Itakura persuades her boss to let her investigate the owner of a string of love hotels who seems to be avoiding tax, but after an investigation no evidence is found. During the investigation the inspector and the inspected owner, Hideki Gondō, develop an unspoken respect for each other.

Itakura is promoted to the post of government tax inspector. When the same case involving Gondō reappears Itakura is again allowed to investigate. During a sophisticated series of raids against the hotel owner's interests, she accidentally comes across a hidden room containing vital incriminating evidence.

Six months later the two meet again. Gondō is tired after daily interrogations. Itakura tries to persuade him to surrender his last secrets for the sake of his son. Gondō asks Itakura to leave her job and come live with him, but she declines. He cuts his finger and writes the name of the secret bank account in blood on a handkerchief of hers that he saved from the first time she investigated him.

CastEdit

Nobuko Miyamoto: Ryōko Itakura
Tsutomu Yamazaki: Hideki Gondō
Masahiko Tsugawa: Hanamura
Yasuo Daichi: Ijūin
Kinzoh Sakura: Kaneko
Hajime Asō: Himeda
Kiriko Shimizu: Kazue Kenmochi
Kazuyo Matsui: Kumi Torikai
Hideo Murota: Jūkichi Ishii
Machiko Watanabe: Nurse
Shōtarō Takeuchi: Rihei Hakamada
Hideji Otaki: Tsuyuguchi
Moeko Ezawa: Gondō's mistress
Mitsuhiko Kiyohisa: Gondō's chauffeur
Akira Shioji: Realtor
Yoshihiro Kato: Yamada
Mariko Okada: Mitsuko Sugiura
Shinsuke Ashida: Ninagawa
Kōichi Ueda: Ninagawa's confidant
Yūsuke Nagumo: Ninagawa's henchman
Shirō Itō: Owner of a pachinko parlor
Eitaro Ozawa: Tax accountant
Keiju Kobayashi: Boss
Tokuko Sugiyama: Grocery store owner's wife

Video gameEdit

A visual novel video game of the same title was published by Capcom for the Family Computer in 1989 only in Japan.<ref>https://mediaarts-db.artmuseums.go.jp/id/M727374</ref>

ReceptionEdit

Critical ResponseEdit

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 75% of 12 critics' reviews are positive.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Derek Malcolm of The Guardian compared it favorably to Juzo Itami's other films saying "the films construction...is tighter and more logical."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Roger Ebert, however, gave the movie two out of four stars saying, "I found 'A Taxing Woman' a disappointment after the lean economy of 'Tampopo.'"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

NotesEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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