#a taxing woman

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マルサの女 (Marusa no onna - A Taxing Woman), 1987.

Dir. & Writ. Juzo Itami | DOP Yonezo Maeda

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Marusa no Onna (Famicom)

[babygray]

So, in order to get Kiryu’s trouble finder, I have to progress far enough into the real estate business story to meet a tax lady.

"A lady with a bob cut," she describes herself on the phone. It was only when we go outside to meet her that my brain goes, "ping". "Okay. That's... a Taxing Woman..."

That's what she immediately reminded me of: the movie "A Taxing Woman" (Marusa no Onna), directed by Juzo Itami, about a tax investigator trying to nab a love hotel owner for tax fraud. It's a very funny movie, one I haven't seen in decades, actually, but it made enough of an impact on me that I remembered it right away.

... but in the movie, she had sunglasses and freckles. Where...

Holy Fuck! There she is! The Taxing Woman!!!! *fangirls myself into a frenzy*

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Marusa no Onna

In February of 1987, the movie Marusa no Onna (in English, A Taxing Woman), directed by Juzo Itami, was released in Japan. The movie portrays a National Tax Agency bureaucrat and her investigations into businesses doing tax evasion. With its great direction and satirical humor, it became a hit in Japan. It reached number four in distribution revenues among Japanese films for that year and dominated the 1987’s Japan Academy Film Prize, winning six out of seven of its major awards, including Best Work, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

Capcom released Marusa no Onna in September 1989, being the company’s second game adaptation of a movie for the Famicom (the first was Willow, that same year). The film’s director, Juzo Itami, worked as a producer for the game. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, director known for his contributions to the Japanese horror movie scene, was also credited with helping with the project. Capcom regular Tokuro Fujiwara was the director. The three of them also worked together on the RPG Sweet Home, which was released just three months after Marusa no Onna. One of Sweet Home’s screenwriters, credited as PROBIT, also served as the sole screenwriter for Marusa no Onna’s game. Although Marusa no Onna remained largely forgotten throughout the years, Sweet Home went on to be recognized as a precursor of the survival horror genre and served as the main inspiration for Resident Evil.

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Was searching for pictures to use in my favourite new viewings of 2022 post, and found this German DVD cover for A Taxing Woman. Needless to say it is not an accurate representation of the movie.

Me too, Nobuko Miyamoto. Me too.

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[swampflix]

Podcast #184: A Taxing Woman (1987) on Tax Day

Welcome to Episode #184 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Hanna, and Britnee celebrate Tax Day with a grab bag of movies about dramatic tax audits & tax evasions, starting with Juzo Itami’s A Taxing Woman (1987). 00:00 Welcome 02:08 Suzume (2023)04:55 Enys Men (2023)13:18 Passion of the Christ (2004)20:55 Ernst Lubitsch27:21 John Wick: Chapter IV (2023)32:00 The Women…

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Halenthir but none of the Finweans believe Haleth is real because they all assume Caranthir made up a spouse so he could leverage his marriage status for tax concessions. Caranthir is extremely mad about this. Haleth thinks it’s hilarious.

[worshipfulmercy]

tax man :)

[pubprob]

sometime in the past few decades movies stopped being movies

whatever happened to throwing a dart at a board and coming up with the most random plots that no one else could ever think of? what happened to weird kids and disgraced scientists needing to come up with 1.21 jig-o-wots (not how it's pronounced btw) to power their time machines? what happened to saving a town by dancing? what happened to stealing the declaration of independence? what happened to dinosaur fossils and wax mannequins coming to life? what happened to towns of anthropomorphic chickens being attacked by aliens in want of acorns? what happened to mean girls getting hit by a bus while storming out of a school left in shambles by teen drama?

what happened to cinema?

[the-abyss-of-fandoms]

Me when the villagers start throwing their axes at me and I’m at low health: Please stop I’m just a woman. Playing this nightmare of a game

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finding out ur coworker is way older than you thought and having to very quickly reorient how you talk to them

[kingkatsuki]

Men that make every ounce of feminism leave your body.

[halfturn]

may the wrath of god strike down every landlord amen