A Taxing Woman's Return

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.

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Jūzō Itami directed A Taxing Woman's Return in 1988. See Jūzō Itami's full filmography, where to start with Jūzō Itami, or where to go after you've seen everything by Jūzō Itami.

A Taxing Woman's Return was released in 1988 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 127 minutes.