Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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More Tropes Dark and Troubled Past Neck Lift Shipper on Deck Despair Event Horizon Gone Horribly Right Kick the Dog The Chessmaster Missing Mom True Companions Took a Level in Jerkass Abhorrent Admirer Obfuscating Stupidity Unusually Uninteresting Sight I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Room Full of Crazy Fish out of Water Age Lift Rule of Funny Maybe Ever After Fun with Acronyms No OSHA Compliance As Long as It Sounds Foreign Only a Flesh Wound Credits Gag Corpsing In the Back Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Insistent Terminology How We Got Here Death Seeker Stalker with a Crush Department of Redundancy Department Roaring Rampage of Revenge Ambiguous Ending Fantastic Racism Half the Man He Used to Be Bilingual Bonus Blood Knight Bond One-Liner He Knows Too Much The '50s Worthy Opponent The Reveal Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Reasonable Authority Figure Eureka Moment Self-Deprecation A Minor Kidroduction The Ghost The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Alcoholic Humans Are Bastards Does Not Like Shoes Refuge in Audacity Damsel in Distress And Starring No Ending The Ace Vacation Films Light Is Not Good Deadpan Snarker Aside Glance Does This Remind You of Anything? Children Are Innocent Romantic Comedy Kick the Son of a Bitch Gilligan Cut Action Genre Not Using the "Z" Word The Un-Reveal Hair-Trigger Temper Artistic License – Geography Final Girl Alpha Bitch Dirty Cop Evil Sounds Deep All for Nothing Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique All There in the Manual Distracted by the Sexy Anachronism Stew Loads and Loads of Characters Parental Neglect Greater-Scope Villain I'm a Humanitarian Gold Digger Ghost Fiction Red Eyes, Take Warning Chase Scene Adapted Out An Axe to Grind Peek-a-Boo Corpse Getting Crap Past the Radar Coming-of-Age Story Pet the Dog Good Is Not Nice Mind Screw Conspicuous CG Made of Explodium Groin Attack Pyrrhic Victory Names to Run Away from Really Fast Scary Black Man Drowning My Sorrows Jerk with a Heart of Gold Deliberate Values Dissonance Mama Bear Kubrick Stare Double Entendre Daddy's Girl Mythology Gag Sadistic Choice War Is Hell Adaptational Heroism Freudian Excuse Chewing the Scenery Nothing Is Scarier Action Girl Never My Fault Foreshadowing Film Noir Index Fatal Family Photo Meaningful Name Music Stories Cat Fight Obviously Evil Chekhov's Gun Horror Comedy N-Word Privileges Have a Gay Old Time Wham Shot I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Tempting Fate Only One Name The Place Hero of Another Story Genre Throwback Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Big Applesauce Stepford Smiler Pretty in Mink Overly Long Gag Wicked Cultured In Medias Res Time Skip Cool Old Lady Rule of Cool Babies Ever After Bowdlerise Monumental Damage Properly Paranoid Spiteful Spit BFG Beta Couple Adaptation Expansion Psycho for Hire Improvised Weapon Break the Haughty Translation Convention Arch-Enemy Death of a Child Mugging the Monster Pay Evil unto Evil Obstructive Bureaucrat Punch-Clock Villain Freeze-Frame Bonus Disguised in Drag Sassy Black Woman Artistic License – Physics Brick Joke Dumb Blonde Kill It with Fire Artistic License – Gun Safety Determinator aka: The Determinator Skewed Priorities Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Kids Are Cruel Oh, Crap! One-Man Army Knight Templar Married to the Job Honor Before Reason Badass Boast Police Brutality Canon Foreigner Frame-Up Contrived Coincidence Shout-Out Reckless Gun Usage The Bully Blood from the Mouth Title Drop Dark Action Girl Meaningful Background Event Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil MacGuffin Bury Your Gays Face Death with Dignity Improbable Aiming Skills Beard of Evil Destination Defenestration Parental Abandonment Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Slashed Throat My Beloved Smother Historical In-Joke Fingore '80s Hair The Vamp Informed Ability Toplessness from the Back Vampire Fiction No Celebrities Were Harmed Evil Laugh Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Too Dumb to Live I Have Your Wife Super Strength 20 Minutes into the Future Determinator Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Rape as Drama Jerkass What You Are in the Dark There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Voiceless Flashback Easily Forgiven Beauty Is Never Tarnished Public Domain Feature Films folderlabel Death by Sex Anti-Hero Laser-Guided Karma Stock Footage Big Eater Evil-Detecting Dog The Power of Love Dramatic Irony Epic Movie Grievous Bottley Harm Anguished Declaration of Love Not So Stoic Dies Wide Open A.I. Is a Crapshoot Bloody Hilarious Apocalypse How Only in It for the Money Black Comedy Rape Amoral Attorney Captain Obvious The Stoner Character Development Take a Third Option Bunny-Ears Lawyer Mr. Exposition Parental Incest Death by Adaptation Disney Death Sanity Slippage One Steve Limit Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Friend to All Children The Film of the Book Hell Is That Noise Fantasy Films Cold-Blooded Torture Gainax Ending Wham Line Redemption Equals Death Immune to Bullets Happily Married Eiffel Tower Effect Hong Kong Films You Have Failed Me Soundtrack Dissonance Film Series Ship Tease Redshirt Army Artistic License – Law Fatal Flaw Setting Update Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Dressing as the Enemy Our Zombies Are Different Ungrateful Bastard Four-Temperament Ensemble Adaptation Distillation "Well Done, Son!" Guy Ripped from the Headlines Token Minority Ascended Extra "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Creepy Child Big Fancy House Your Head A-Splode Man on Fire The Dog Bites Back Dramedy As the Good Book Says... Loophole Abuse Alliterative Name Breaking the Fourth Wall Running Gag He Who Fights Monsters Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Shell-Shocked Veteran Handicapped Badass The Hero Those Wacky Nazis Meet Cute Stuff Blowing Up Documentary Ominous Latin Chanting Logo Joke Very Loosely Based on a True Story Match Cut Demonic Possession Rated M for Manly Crazy-Prepared Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Abusive Parents Five-Man Band Word of God Manly Tears Bland-Name Product Wretched Hive Yandere All Men Are Perverts Took a Level in Badass Gender Flip Sealed Evil in a Can Grey and Gray Morality Affectionate Parody The '70s Spanner in the Works Death Glare Earn Your Happy Ending Batman Gambit "Shaggy Dog" Story Cool Guns Bad "Bad Acting" Evil vs. Evil No Antagonist Air-Vent Passageway Slap-Slap-Kiss Heroic BSoD Creator Cameo Non-Indicative Name Heroic Sacrifice Dual Wielding Auto Erotica Horror Films Rousing Speech For the Evulz Cool Old Guy Hoist by His Own Petard Sports Stories Product Placement Unwitting Instigator of Doom All Just a Dream Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Mercy Kill Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bullying a Dragon Red Herring Novelization Guns Akimbo Early Installment Weirdness B-Movie Taking You with Me Get Out! Crapsack World The Sociopath Fainting Reality Ensues Large Ham Big Damn Heroes Genre Savvy The Brute Victoria's Secret Compartment Villain Opening Scene Curb-Stomp Battle The Lost Lenore Tap on the Head Adaptation Dye-Job Wounded Gazelle Gambit It's Personal It Can Think The Atoner Karma Houdini Those Two Bad Guys Closed Circle Red Oni, Blue Oni Aluminum Christmas Trees Cluster F-Bomb Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Superhero The Mole Villain Protagonist Mighty Whitey Broken Aesop Dull Surprise Deconstruction O.O.C. Is Serious Business Small Name, Big Ego Leave the Camera Running Dying Moment of Awesome Lampshade Hanging Morality Pet Hypocrite Martial Arts Movie Retired Badass Attempted Rape Black Dude Dies First The Starscream The Quiet One Straight Gay Off-into-the-Distance Ending I Need a Freaking Drink Deus ex Machina Combat Pragmatist Vomit Discretion Shot Tranquil Fury Sinister Minister The Bad Guy Wins Blatant Lies Crucified Hero Shot Fanservice German Films Off with His Head! Brainless Beauty Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Paper-Thin Disguise Domestic Abuse Film Noir Papa Wolf Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Heel–Face Turn Japanese Films Needs Wiki Magic Love Wrong Genre Savvy Mexican Standoff The Smurfette Principle The Lancer Big-Bad Ensemble Pretty Little Headshots Bottomless Magazines Meaningful Echo Boom, Headshot! Jerk Jock Calling the Old Man Out Author Appeal Dissonant Serenity Smug Snake Once More, with Clarity! Anyone Can Die Spiritual Successor Antagonist Title Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bad Boss Curse Cut Short timeperiod Leitmotif Laughing Mad Face–Heel Turn Scenery Porn Not Quite Dead Adaptational Attractiveness Broken Bird Fiery Redhead Take That! Put on a Bus Not So Above It All Exactly What It Says on the Tin Chekhov's Skill Catapult Nightmare Punny Name Award-Bait Song As Himself Red Right Hand Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Real Life Writes the Plot Costume Porn Important Haircut From Bad to Worse Empathic Environment Fate Worse than Death Extreme Doormat Badass Grandpa Spared by the Adaptation Break the Cutie Due to the Dead The Smart Guy Call-Forward Developing Doomed Characters Mystery and Detective Films Broken Pedestal Whole Plot Reference Up to Eleven Undying Loyalty Hero Antagonist Dirty Old Man Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Flipping the Bird Composite Character Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Major Injury Underreaction Fanservice Extra May–December Romance Spell My Name with an "S" What Happened to the Mouse? Genre Shift Overprotective Dad Re-Cut The Cameo Together in Death Adult Fear Kill 'em All Knife Nut Corrupt Corporate Executive Funny Foreigner Nice Hat Russian Films Parental Substitute Taking the Bullet Dramatic Gun Cock Red Shirt An Arm and a Leg Irony Body Horror Accidental Misnaming Mr. Fanservice Imagine Spot Here We Go Again! Never Found the Body Twist Ending Stealth Pun Playing Gertrude Chiaroscuro Unusual Euphemism Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Bi the Way Action Survivor Even Evil Has Loved Ones Every Car Is a Pinto Pragmatic Adaptation Fan Disservice Historical Hero Upgrade Bavarian Fire Drill Works Set in World War II All Girls Want Bad Boys NO INDOOR VOICE Villainous Breakdown Insult Backfire Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Neck Snap Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The X of Y Mistaken for Gay Heroes Want Redheads "The Reason You Suck" Speech Big Brother Instinct Actor Allusion What the Hell, Hero? Actually Pretty Funny Left the Background Music On Almost Kiss Australian Movies Silence Is Golden Villain with Good Publicity Be Careful What You Wish For Driven to Suicide Captain Ersatz Scare Chord Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mad Scientist Defrosting Ice Queen Sexy Discretion Shot Not What It Looks Like Smoking Is Cool Cain and Abel You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Line-of-Sight Name Narrator Famous Last Words Serial Killer Ass Shove Darkest Hour Henpecked Husband Malevolent Masked Men Rasputinian Death Thriller Ms. Fanservice Amusing Injuries Black Best Friend Danny Peary Cult Movies List Vitriolic Best Buds Big Bad The Oner Storming the Castle Disney Villain Death Hypocritical Humor Instant Death Bullet Military and Warfare Films Implacable Man Make It Look Like an Accident The Stinger Retcon Big Bad Duumvirate A God Am I Mooks Bait-and-Switch Sequel Escalation A Date with Rosie Palms Bittersweet Ending Nice Guy Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Badass Bookworm Faux Affably Evil Killed Mid-Sentence Tagline La Résistance Visual Pun Index of Film Westerns Facial Horror Historical Villain Upgrade Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Black Comedy Darker and Edgier Disproportionate Retribution Idiot Ball Villain Song Heterosexual Life-Partners Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Karmic Death Christmas Movies Index Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Humiliation Conga My God, What Have I Done? Extremely Short Timespan Everyone Has Standards Advertised Extra Adaptational Badass Dark Reprise Disappeared Dad Not So Different The Chick Annoying Younger Sibling Manchild Police are Useless Better to Die than Be Killed All There in the Script Dogged Nice Guy Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Crazy Jealous Guy Leaning on the Fourth Wall The Stoic Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Stealth Hi/Bye Rule of Symbolism Call-Back Video Credits Author Avatar Betty and Veronica Enemy Mine Biopic Training Montage Covers Always Lie Chekhov's Gunman Brother–Sister Incest Did Not Get the Girl Same Language Dub Bare Your Midriff Shown Their Work The Musical Made of Iron And I Must Scream Framing Device British Films Truth in Television Agony of the Feet Madness Mantra Romantic False Lead Guile Hero Dark Is Not Evil Ambiguous Disorder An Aesop Cassandra Truth Not Even Bothering with the Accent Serious Business Based on a True Story Celebrity Paradox Evil Plan Villain Ball Exact Words The Casanova Ambiguously Gay Trailers Always Spoil Hooker with a Heart of Gold Green-Eyed Monster I Did What I Had to Do Adorkable Suspiciously Specific Denial Cloudcuckoolander As You Know Action Prologue Camp Gay Noodle Incident Unspoken Plan Guarantee No-Sell Well-Intentioned Extremist Lighter and Softer Eagleland Even Evil Has Standards Sci-Fi Horror World of Ham Drugs Are Bad She's Got Legs Double-Meaning Title Television Movie Index Badass Longcoat Woman in White Mood Whiplash Only Sane Man Only Known by Their Nickname Hollywood Law Manipulative Bastard More Dakka Camera Abuse For Want of a Nail Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Improbable Weapon User Pre-Asskicking One-Liner This Is Gonna Suck Sequel Hook Bound and Gagged Central Theme Italian Films Precision F-Strike Suddenly SHOUTING! French Films Berserk Button Authority Equals Asskicking Sole Survivor Bloodier and Gorier Insane Troll Logic Fire-Forged Friends Adults Are Useless Last-Name Basis The '80s Depraved Bisexual Protagonist Title Badass Normal From Nobody to Nightmare Gratuitous English Love at First Sight Artistic License – History Hate Sink Interrupted Suicide A Father to His Men Epic Fail Card-Carrying Villain "Awesome McCool" Name Big "NO!" Show Within a Show Anti-Villain Love Triangle Pre-Mortem One-Liner Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Poor Communication Kills Dropped a Bridge on Him Country Matters Pragmatic Villainy Plucky Comic Relief Say My Name Jerkass Has a Point Badass in a Nice Suit Evil Is Hammy Never Trust a Trailer Belligerent Sexual Tension Adaptational Villainy You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! It's All About Me Homage Downer Ending The Big Guy Scenery Gorn Sir Swears-a-Lot Gory Discretion Shot Outrun the Fireball The Hero Dies One-Word Title The '60s Slasher Smile Recycled IN SPACE! Comically Missing the Point Becoming the Mask Ax-Crazy Lock and Load Montage Jitter Cam Creative Closing Credits Anachronic Order Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Bolivian Army Ending Bring My Brown Pants Diabolus ex Machina Asshole Victim Femme Fatale Jump Scare Those Two Guys Car Fu Blackmail Continuity Nod After the End Heel Realization The Remake Cat Scare Faking the Dead Ironic Echo Artistic License – Military Didn't Think This Through Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Retirony Riddle for the Ages Shirtless Scene Fourth Date Marriage Bloodless Carnage Fake Shemp Beware the Nice Ones Mundane Made Awesome Failed a Spot Check Revenge No Name Given Intrepid Reporter Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Great Depression Dirty Coward Your Cheating Heart Soft Glass Decoy Protagonist Bald of Evil Alas, Poor Villain Offscreen Teleportation Pimped-Out Dress It Will Never Catch On Book-Ends Psychological Thriller Expository Hairstyle Change Affably Evil Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Evil Brit Woman Scorned Funny Background Event Intergenerational Friendship You Killed My Father Catch-Phrase The Dragon The '90s Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Male Frontal Nudity Rewatch Bonus Accidental Murder Arc Words Dutch Angle Market-Based Title My Greatest Failure Drives Like Crazy Animal Title Index Eye Scream Rich Bitch Gorn Canadian Movies Random Events Plot Unresolved Sexual Tension Demoted to Extra Artistic License – Biology Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Drill Sergeant Nasty Naïve Newcomer No-Holds-Barred Beatdown The Faceless Let's Get Dangerous! Deliberately Monochrome The Alleged Car Posthumous Character Bar Brawl Defiant to the End Eldritch Abomination Reality Has No Subtitles Zombie Stories Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Load Moment Killer Cruel and Unusual Death Early-Bird Cameo Older Than They Look Armor-Piercing Question Reality Is Unrealistic Animal Motifs Silent Movie Establishing Character Moment The Dreaded She Cleans Up Nicely Animated Credits Opening Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Motor Mouth And the Adventure Continues Deal with the Devil The Cavalry Science Fiction Films Throwing Your Sword Always Works Stylistic Suck Butt-Monkey Death by Irony Black and Gray Morality Casting Gag Psychopathic Manchild No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Would Hurt a Child Fat Bastard Cool Shades Bond Villain Stupidity Unreliable Narrator Totally Radical Expy Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Race Against the Clock Real Life Hope Spot Vomit Indiscretion Shot Naked People Are Funny Shower Scene Would Hit a Girl Cool Car Daylight Horror Adaptation Name Change Slasher Movie Brutal Honesty Male Gaze Foregone Conclusion Race Lift Back from the Dead Evil Is Petty Dwindling Party The Mafia Arranged Marriage Evil Counterpart Sacrificial Lion Foil Historical-Domain Character Politically Incorrect Villain Awesome, but Impractical Rule of Three Shut Up, Hannibal! Star-Crossed Lovers In Name Only Eyepatch of Power Really Gets Around Hidden Depths The Ditz Men Are the Expendable Gender Our Vampires Are Different Plot Hole Hollywood Darkness The End... Or Is It? Cowboy Cop