Monday (2000 film)

Monday
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 (Berlin Film Festival);
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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]

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

^ "America's First Major Retrospective of Japan's Explosive Film Auteur". Japan Society. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
^ Hale, Mike (25 January 2011). "Fanfare and Ridicule for Japan's Common Man". New York Times. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
^ Elley, Derek (13 March 2000). "Monday". Variety. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

External links

Monday at IMDb

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[JapanSociety-1] "America's First Major Retrospective of Japan's Explosive Film Auteur". Japan Society. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

[NYT-2] Hale, Mike (25 January 2011). "Fanfare and Ridicule for Japan's Common Man". New York Times. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

[Variety-3] Elley, Derek (13 March 2000). "Monday". Variety. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

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