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A Taxing Woman
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Wikipedia article
is a 1987 Japanese film written and directed by Juzo Itami.Infobox data from 'and' 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.
The director reportedly was inspired to make the film after he entered a much higher tax bracket after his success with 'The Funeral'.
A sequel, 'A Taxing Woman 2', featuring some of the same characters but darker in tone, was released in 1988.
Plot
A female tax auditor, Ryko Itakura, inspects the accounts of various Japanese companies, uncovering hidden incomes and recovering unpaid taxes.
One day she 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 Gond, develop an unspoken respect for each other.
She is promoted to the post of government tax inspector. When the same case reappears she 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. On the same day, she helps Gond with his relationship with his teenage son. While she is doing all of this, she is neglecting her own son at home, calling him from her office at night and saying, "You can heat up your own dumplings in the microwave! You are big now! You are five!"
Six months later the two meet again. The man is tired after daily interrogations. She tries to persuade him to surrender his last secrets for the sake of his son. After she declines an offer to work with him, 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.
Cast
* Nobuko Miyamoto: Ryko Itakura
* Tsutomu Yamazaki: Hideki Gond
* Masahiko Tsugawa: Hanamura
* Yasuo Daichi: Ijin
* Kinzoh Sakura: Kaneko
* Hajime As: Himeda
* Kiriko Shimizu: Kazue Kenmochi
* Kazuyo Matsui: Kumi Torikai
* Hideo Murota: Jkichi Ishii
* Machiko Watanabe: Nurse
* Shtar Takeuchi: Rihei Hakamada
* Hideji Otaki: Tsuyuguchi
* Moeko Ezawa: Gond's mistress
* Mitsuhiko Kiyohisa: Gond's chauffeur
* Akira Shioji: Realtor
* Yoshihiro Kato: Yamada
* Mariko Okada: Mitsuko Sugiura
* Shinsuke Ashida: Ninagawa
* Kichi Ueda: Ninagawa's confidant
* Ysuke Nagumo: Ninagawa's henchman
* Shir It: Owner of a game center
* Eitaro Ozawa: Tax accountant
* Keiju Kobayashi: Boss
* Tokuko Sugiyama: Grocery store owner's wife
Video game
An eponymous visual novel video game was published by Capcom for the Family Computer in 1989.
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