Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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