Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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