Marusa no Onna (Jpn) - マルサの女
A Taxing Woman (マルサの女, Marusa no onna) is a 1987 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami. 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.
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.
Marusa no Onna (Jpn)
Technical
CPU
- maincpu N2A03 (@ 1 Mhz)
Chipset
- N2A03 (@ 1 Mhz)
Display
- Orientation Yoko
- Resolution 255 x 240
- Frequency 60.098 Hz
Controlers
- Number of players 4
- Number of buttons 2
- Kind of controler
- triplejoy (8 ways)
- triplejoy (8 ways)
- triplejoy (8 ways)
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Marusa no Onna (Jpn) Screenshots
Plot
A female tax auditor, Ryōko 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 Gondō, 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 Gondō with his relationship with his teenage son.
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 live 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.
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 Gondō, 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 Gondō with his relationship with his teenage son.
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 live 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: Ryōko Itakura
- Tsutomu Yamazaki: Hideki Gondō
- Masahiko Tsugawa: Hanamura
- Yasuo Daichi: Ijūin
- Kinzoh Sakura: Kaneko
- Hajime Asō: Himeda
- Kiriko Shimizu: Kazue Kenmochi
- Kazuyo Matsui: Kumi Torikai
- Hideo Murota: Jūkichi Ishii
- Machiko Watanabe: Nurse
- Shōtarō Takeuchi: Rihei Hakamada
- Mitsuhiko Kiyohisa: Gondō no Untenshu
- Akira Shioji: Fudōsan'ya
- Kōichi Ueda: Ninagawa no Fukushin
- Yūsuke Nagumo: Ninagawa no Kobun
