A Taxing woman

Ryoko is an inspector for the Japanese National Tax Agency who devotes her energies to trapping small-time evaders like gambling and small shop proprietors. Her success leads her to take on a big-time operator, hoodlum and 'entertainment' hotel owner, Gondo. The film exploits and inverts the cliches of the fast detective thriller and generates sexual excitement in examining the details of criminal life.

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"Taxing woman returns [videorecording]"@en
"Marusa no onna"
"Return of the taxing woman"

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"Ryoko, Tokyo's hardest working female tax inspector chances on one of Tokyo's busiest "love hotels" owned by Gondo. She realizes what a goldmine she has stumbled upon. Ryoko's attempt to audit Gondo is thwarted by his hilarious evasive maneuvers. The taxing women and her clever prey test their respective skills of detection and deception complicated by stirrings of mutual sexual attraction."
"Ryoko is an inspector for the Japanese National Tax Agency who devotes her energies to trapping small-time evaders like gambling and small shop proprietors. Her success leads her to take on a big-time operator, hoodlum and 'entertainment' hotel owner, Gondo. The film exploits and inverts the cliches of the fast detective thriller and generates sexual excitement in examining the details of criminal life."
"Ryoko is an inspector for the Japanese National Tax Agency who devotes her energies to trapping small-time evaders like gambling and small shop proprietors. Her success leads her to take on a big-time operator, hoodlum and 'entertainment' hotel owner, Gondo. The film exploits and inverts the cliches of the fast detective thriller and generates sexual excitement in examining the details of criminal life."@en
"A sequel to the 1987 film A taxing woman. A tenacious female tax inspector investigates a corrupt religious order in Japan."
"Ryoko, Tokyo's hardest working female tax inspector chances on one of Tokyo's busiest "love hotels", owned by Gondo, a tax cheat extraordinaire. She realizes what a goldmine she has stumbled upon. Ryoko's attempt to audit Gondo is thwarted by his hilarious evasive maneuvers. The taxing woman and her clever prey test their respective skills of detection and deception complicated by stirrings of mutual sexual attraction."
"A female tax inspector investigates a corrupt fundamentalist religious order. Satirical."
"A tenacious tax inspector investigates a corrupt fundamentalist religious order in this satire of greed at the top."
"Ryoko, Tokyo's hardest working female tax inspector chances on one of Tokyo's busiest "love hotels", owned by Gondo, a tax cheat extraordinaire. She realizes what a goldmine she has stumbled upon. Ryoko's attempt to audit Gondo is thwarted by his hilarious evasive maneuvers. The taxing women and her clever prey test their respective skills of detection and deception complicated by stirrings of mutual sexual attraction."
"This is one of a series of comedies by Itami (the others include: A Taxing Woman, Tampopo and The Funeral) which satirise the collapse of traditional values in Japan since World War II. Here Itami employs the conventions of melodrama. He further develops the central character in A Taxing Woman. Ryoko Hakura, the resourceful tax inspector inspired by Peter Falk's Columbo, takes on the financial labyrinth constructed by the jaded leader of a fraudulent religious cult collaborating with politicians, banks and big business all held together by organised crime."