A Taxing Woman 2
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[edit] Profile
- Movie: A Taxing Woman 2
- Romaji: Marusa no onna II
- Japanese: マルサの女２
- Director: Juzo Itami
- Writer: Juzo Itami
- Producer: Seigo Hosogoe, Yasushi Tamaoki
- Cinematographer: Yonezo Maeda
- Release Date: January 15, 1988
- Runtime: 127 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
[edit] Plot
Ryoko is a pint-size sleuth, with a raccoon's mask of freckles, who'll do anything -- climb across rooftops, stage a stakeout or go undercover -- to ferret out frauds and tax crooks. Her target this time is Chief Elder Onizawa (Rentaro Mikuni), the robustly corrupt leader of a religion called Heaven's Path that rakes in billions and billions of yen every year, all tax-exempt. In making this second visit to the epidemic problem of tax evasion in his homeland, Itami seems to have wanted to up the ante. He wants to show how pervasive this evil has become, how far down it reaches. In doing so he has created a plot that involves a vast building project, land speculation, murder and political payoffs. -- Washington Post
[edit] Notes
- Directed by Juzo Itami and stars his wife & regular leading lady, Nobuko Miyamoto.
- Related Films:
- A Taxing Woman (1987)
[edit] Cast
- Nobuko Miyamoto - Ryoko Itakura
- Rentaro Mikuni - Teppei Onizawa
- Masahiko Tsugawa - Hanamura
- Tetsuro Tamba - Sadohara
- Toru Masuoka - Mishima
- Koichi Ueda - Nekoda
- Mansaku Fuwa - Masa
- Takeya Nakamura - Urushibara
- Yasuo Daichi - Ijuin, 'Japanese Jack Nicholson'
- Yoriko Douguchi - Nana
- Mach Fumiake - Akiyama
- Izumi Hara - Old lady
- Haruko Kato - Kinu Akabane
- Kitarou - Sadao
- Hiroshi Okochi - Henchman
- Chishu Ryu - Ex Buddhist monk
- Jun Matsumoto
