A Taxing Woman | |
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Directed by | Juzo Itami |
Written by | Juzo Itami |
Produced by | Seigo Hosogoe Yasushi Tamaoki |
Starring | Nobuko Miyamoto Tsutomu Yamazaki Masahiko Tsugawa Keiju Kobayashi Mariko Okada |
Cinematography | Yonezo Maeda |
Edited by | Akira Suzuki |
Music by | Toshiyuki Honda |
Distributed by | Toho |
Release date |
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Running time | 127 min. |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
A Taxing Woman (マルサの女, Marusa no onna)[a] is a 1987 Japanese film written and directed by Juzo Itami.[1] It won numerous awards, including six major Japanese Academy awards.[2] 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.[3]
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.
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