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7.4/10   1,172 votes
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Writer:
Hiroyuki Tanaka (writer)
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Release Date:
26 January 2001 (Norway) more
Plot:
A simple funeral turns a man's world topsy turvy. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins more
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The intricacies of Japanese society shown by Mr.Hiroyuki Tanaka more (14 total)

Cast

  (in credits order)
Shin'ichi Tsutsumi ... Koichi Takagi, the salaryman
Yasuko Matsuyuki ... Yuko Kirishima, the yakuza girl
Ren Ôsugi ... 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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hijiri Kojima
Nanako Ôkôchi
Nao Omori
Susumu Terajima
Kanji Tsuda
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Directed by
Hiroyuki Tanaka  (as Sabu)
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Hiroyuki Tanaka  writer (as Sabu)

Produced by
Hiroto Kimura .... line producer
Bong-Ou Lee .... producer
 
Original Music by
Kenichiro Shibuya 
 
Cinematography by
Kazuto Sato  (as Kazuhiko Sato)
 
Film Editing by
Kumio Onaga 
 
Production Design by
Tomoyuki Maruo 
 
Sound Department
Hiroshi Yamagata .... sound
 
Special Effects by
Masami Kobayashi .... special effects
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Seiichirô Mieno .... lighting assistant
 
Editorial Department
Shôjirô Urahama .... assistant editor
 

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Runtime:
100 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Spoofed in Scary Movie 3 (2003) more

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2 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
The intricacies of Japanese society shown by Mr.Hiroyuki Tanaka, 4 July 2008
8/10
Author: Lalit Rao (cpowerccc@yahoo.com) from Paris, France

Actors making films is a new trend in Japanese cinema.It is a known fact that many of them are no so successful.The only exception in the history of Japanese cinema is Takeshi Kitano who is good as an actor as well as a film maker.Monday is directed by Hiroyuki Tanaka who is one of the most important actors of Japanese cinema.In this film he has given viewers unfettered access into the minds of various sections of Japanese society.What we see in the film is the way people like a family,a salary man,some yakuzas and some of the police behave in the course of their normal lives.The idea of the film is not to criticize a section to praise a different one.In this film,Sabu wants to show us his protagonists with their real intentions,moods and motives for leading lives which they feel are suitable for them.Monday is also a plea for peace as Japanese people have suffered enormous losses in the past especially during the World War 2.This is the reason why violence has been shunned in this film.PS:kindly watch with close attention the performance of Terajima Susumu who also stars in Sabu's wonderful film "The Blessing Bell".

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