A Taxing Woman 2

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A Taxing Woman 2
Directed by	Juzo Itami
Produced by	Seigo Hosogoe Yasushi Tamaoki
Written by	Juzo Itami
Starring	Nobuko Miyamoto Rentaro Mikuni Masahiko Tsugawa Tetsuro Tamba Toru Masuoka Koichi Ueda Mansaku Fuwa Takeya Nakamura
Music by	Toshiyuki Honda
Cinematography	Yonezo Maeda
Editing by	Akira Suzuki
Release date(s)	1988 (Japan)
Running time	127 min.
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
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A Taxing Woman 2, also titled A Taxing Woman's Return (Japanese title マルサの女2, Marusa no onna 2) is a 1988 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami. It is the sequel to Itami's 1987 comedy A Taxing Woman.

As in A Taxing Woman, Nobuko Miyamoto plays female government tax investigator Ryoko Itakura. In this film she investigates a religious sect, led by Teppei Onizawa (Rentaro Mikuni), that is suspected of being used for tax evasion. The sect is part of a complex conspiracy involving the Yakuza, political corruption and a prestigious construction project.

While retaining some of the comic elements of A Taxing Woman, the sequel is darker and angrier in tone, featuring corruption, intimidation and murder in addition to tax evasion.

The film was nominated for five Japanese Academy Awards, winning the prize for Best Editing.