Monday (2000)

Profile

• Movie: Monday
• Romaji: mandei
• Japanese: マンデイ
• Director: Hiroyuki Tanaka
• Writer: Hiroyuki Tanaka
• Producer:
• Cinematographer:
• Release Date: April 29, 2000
• Runtime: 100 min.
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

Takagi (Shinichi Tsutsumi) wakes up in a motel room. He’s wearing his good suit. He doesn’t know where he is, what day it is, or how he wound up there. Then a packet of “purification salt” — used to rid something of evil spirits — falls out of his pocket. Memories start flashing back. A funeral. A Yakuza. A meeting with a local mob boss. An incident of violence with a random couple on the street, and then…

Cast

• Shinichi Tsutsumi – Koichi Takagi, the salaryman
• Yasuko Matsuyuki – Yuko Kirishima, the yakuza girl
• Ren Osugi – Murai Yoshio, the colleague
• Masanobu Ando – Mitsuo Kondo, the dead man
• Hideki Noda – Shingo Kamiyama, strange man of the bar
• Akira Yamamoto – Kiichiro Hanai, boss of the yakuzas
• Naomi Nishida – Yuki Machida, Koichi’s girlfriend
• Hijiri Kojima
• Nanako Okochi
• Nao Omori
• Susumu Terajima
• Kanji Tsuda
• Kozo Sato
• Natsuo Ishido