Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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