# A Taxing Woman's Return (1988)

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**Original title**: *マルサの女2*
**Runtime**: 127 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
**Directed by**: Jūzō Itami
**Written by**: Jūzō Itami
**Starring**: Rentaro Mikuni, Nobuko Miyamoto, Toru Masuoka, Masahiko Tsugawa, Tetsuro Tamba, Yasuo Daichi

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Shinjuku at dusk—coffee steams over tax ledgers open on a corner desk.

Ryōko Itakura tracks laundered yen into a cult’s temple gardens; gold beneath the soil, hymns over ledgers.

Like The Trial meets It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World under neon suns.

**Mood tags**: outsider, pitch-black, playful

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