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A Taxing Woman's Return

A Taxing Woman's Return
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Directed by Juzo Itami
Produced by
Screenplay by Juzo Itami
Starring
Music by Toshiyuki Honda
Cinematography Yonezo Maeda
Edited by Akira Katsura
Production
company
Itami Production
Distributed by Toho
Release date
  • 15 January 1988 (1988-01-15) (Japan)
Running time
128 minutes
Country Japan

A Taxing Woman's Return, (Japanese title マルサの女2, Marusa no onna 2) is a 1988 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami. It is the sequel to Itami's 1987 comedy A Taxing Woman. Nobuko Miyamoto plays female government tax investigator Ryoko Itakura. She investigates a religious sect, led by Teppei Onizawa (Rentarō Mikuni), that is suspected of being used for tax evasion. The sect is part of a complex conspiracy involving the Yakuza, political corruption and a prestigious construction project.

A Taxing Woman's Return was released in Japan on January 15, 1988 where it wad distributed by Toho.

The film won a few Japanese awards. This included the Mainichi Film Concours Best Supporting Actor for Yasuo Daichi (also for Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad) and a Japanese Academy Awards for Best Editing (Akira Suzuki) who won the award for this film and Brake Out, Love Bites Back and The Silk Road.



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