A Taxing Woman
マルサの女
1987 · 2h 8m · 6.7
Comedy, Crime
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.
Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Yasuo Daichi, Kinzō Sakura, Hajime Asô, Kiriko Shimizu, Kazuyo Matsui, Hideo Murota, Machiko Watanabe
satire, taxes, social satire, investigator, cat and mouse, unpaid taxes