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Monday is a 2000 Japanese comedy thriller drama film directed by Sabu. The film was featured at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI Award "for its austere, dark wit and keen eye for human foibles."[1]

Monday
Monday DVD cover
Directed by	Sabu
Written by	Sabu
Produced by	Bong-Ou Lee
Starring	Shinichi Tsutsumi Yasuko Matsuyuki Ren Ohsugi
Cinematography	Kazuto Sato
Edited by	Kumio Onaga
Music by	Kenichiro Shibuya
Production companies	Cine Qua Non Films CineRocket
Distributed by	Filmmuseum Distributie Rapid Eye Movies
Release date	February 6, 2000 (2000-02-06) (Berlin Film Festival)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Plot

Takagi (Shinichi Tsutsumi), a seemingly average Japanese businessman, wakes up in a hotel room but doesn't know how he wound up there. When a packet of "purification salt" falls out of his pocket, he starts having memories of a funeral and a meeting with a yakuza boss. Soon he finds out he is in deep trouble.

Cast

• Shin'ichi Tsutsumi as Koichi Takagi
• Yasuko Matsuyuki as Yuko Kirishima
• Ren Ohsugi as Murai Yoshio
• Masanobu Andō as Mitsuo Kondo
• Hideki Noda as Shingo Kamiyama
• Akira Yamamoto as Kiichiro Hanai
• Naomi Nishida as Yuki Machida
• Susumu Terajima as Saburô Nakano

Reception

The New York Times found that "'Monday' has some of Sabu’s sharpest satire" and "offers a lot of stylish parody as it tracks the increasingly grim trajectory of the salaryman’s lost weekend."[2] Derek Elley in Variety wrote that "Sabu makes a stunning return to form with "Monday," his fourth and best movie to date."[3]

References

External links

• Monday at IMDb

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