Full awards and nominations of A Taxing Woman
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Comedy
Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in effect, Rembrandt. Her job is complicated by a growing sympathy for the rogue and by political pressure to lay off.
- 44th Venice Film Festival 1987
- NBR (National Board of Review) - Awards for 1988
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11th Japan Academy Film Prize
- winner Best Film
- winner Best Director (Jūzō Itami)
- winner Best Screenplay (Jūzō Itami)
- winner Best Actor (Tsutomu Yamazaki)
- winner Best Actress (Nobuko Miyamoto)
- winner Best Supporting Actor (Masahiko Tsugawa)
- winner Best Music (Toshiyuki Honda)
- nom. Best Cinematography (Yonezo Maeda)
- nom. Best Lighting Direction (Akio Katsura)
- nom. Best Art Direction (Shushi Nakamura)
- winner Best Sound Recording (Osamu Onodera)
- winner Best Film Editing (Akira Suzuki)