If you loved A Taxing Woman's Return, try A Taxing Woman
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.
What they share
Both films are directed by Jūzō Itami, and they both carry the playful mood tag, and they sit in Comedy territory. If that's the register that drew you to A Taxing Woman's Return, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What A Taxing Woman is
Some professions are more glamorous on paper than in practice. An aggressive tax inspector locks horns with a slippery hotel magnate over creative accounting. Their war of forms becomes oddly pleasing in a grimace-inducing way.

