A Taxing Woman

About A Taxing Woman

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.

Jūzō Itami's A Taxing Woman is a 1987 comedy crime film. At 128 minutes long, it arrived in February 1987.

Its themes are social satire, cat and mouse, investigator, and taxes.

Nobuko Miyamoto stars as Ryoko Itakura, Tsutomu Yamazaki as Hideki Gondo, Masahiko Tsugawa as Hanamura, and Yasuo Daichi as Ijuin. The screenplay is by Jūzō Itami. It streams on Criterion Channel in the United States.

A Taxing Woman's Return, Barbie, and Don't Look Up make useful companions to A Taxing Woman, all filed under satire.