If you loved A Taxing Woman, try Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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A Taxing Woman

1987 · dir. Jūzō Itami

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Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

1992 · dir. Jūzō Itami

What they share

Both films are directed by Jūzō Itami, and they both carry the outsider, playful mood tags, and they sit in Comedy / Crime territory. If that's the register that drew you to A Taxing Woman, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

outsiderplayful

What Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion is

Gangsters meet their match in a hotel. A lawyer is hired to handle Yakuza issues. It mostly succeeds at being amusing.

If you loved A Taxing Woman, try Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

A Taxing Woman

Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

What they share

What Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion is

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