Tropescilloscope: Japanese Films

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