Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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