A Taxing Woman's Return, also titled A Taxing Woman 2 (Japanese

Japanese language

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 title マルサの女2, Marusa no onna 2) is a 1988

1988 in film

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 Japan

Japan

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ese comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 film written and directed by Juzo Itami

Juzo Itami

, born , was an actor and a popular modern Japanese film director. Many critics came to regard him as Japan's greatest director since Akira Kurosawa. His 10 movies, all of which he wrote himself, are comic satires on elements of Japanese culture....

. It is the sequel to Itami's 1987

1987 in film

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 comedy A Taxing Woman

A Taxing Woman

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 government tax investigator who employs various techniques to catch tax evaders.The director...

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As in A Taxing Woman, Nobuko Miyamoto

Nobuko Miyamoto

is a Japanese actress. She was born in Otaru, Hokkaidō, and raised in Nagoya. She was married to director Jūzō Itami from 1969 until his death in 1997, and regularly starred in his films....

 plays female government tax investigator Ryoko Itakura. In this film she investigates a religious sect

Shinshukyo

is a Japanese term used to describe domestic new religious movements. They are also known as in Japanese, and are most often called simply Japanese new religions in English. Japanese theologians classify all religious organizations founded since the middle of the 19th century as Shinshūkyō. Thus,...

, led by Teppei Onizawa (Rentaro Mikuni), that is suspected of being used for tax evasion. The sect is part of a complex conspiracy involving the Yakuza

Yakuza

, also known as , are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan , literally "violence group", while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" , "chivalrous organizations". The yakuza are notoriously...

, political corruption and a prestigious construction project.

While retaining some of the comic elements of A Taxing Woman, the sequel is darker and angrier in tone, featuring corruption, intimidation and murder in addition to tax evasion.

The film was nominated for five Japanese Academy Awards

Japanese Academy Awards

The , often called the Japan Academy Awards or the Japanese Academy Awards, is a series of awards given annually since 1978 by the Nippon Academy-shō Association for excellence in Japanese film...

, winning the prize for Best Editing.

Awards

• Award of the Japanese Academy - Best Editing (1989)
• Mainichi Film Concours - Best Supporting Actor (1989)