A Taxing Woman (1987)

Original title

マルサの女

Directed by

Jūzō Itami

Genre

comedy film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 07m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A female tax investigator uses clever tactics to catch people who cheat on their taxes in Japan. She faces off against various tax evaders in a cat and mouse game.

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What happens

A Taxing Woman (マルサの女, Marusa no onna) is a 1987 Japanese film written and directed by Juzo Itami. It won numerous awards, including six major Japanese Academy awards. The title character of the film, played by Nobuko Miyamoto, is a tax investigator for the Japanese National Tax Agency who employs various techniques to catch tax evaders. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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