Monday (I) (2000) 7.2
A simple funeral turns a man's world topsy turvy. Director:Hiroyuki TanakaWriter:Hiroyuki Tanaka |
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Monday (I) (2000) 7.2
A simple funeral turns a man's world topsy turvy. Director:Hiroyuki TanakaWriter:Hiroyuki Tanaka |
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Shin'ichi Tsutsumi | ... |
Koichi Takagi, the salaryman
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Yasuko Matsuyuki | ... |
Yuko Kirishima, the yakuza girl
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Ren Ohsugi | ... |
Murai Yoshio, the colleague
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| Masanobu Andô | ... |
Mitsuo Kondo, the dead man
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Hideki Noda | ... |
Shingo Kamiyama, strange man of the bar
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Akira Yamamoto | ... |
Kiichiro Hanai, boss of the yakuzas
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Naomi Nishida | ... |
Yuki Machida, Koichi's girlfriend
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Hijiri Kojima |
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Nao Ohmori |
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Yôji Tanaka |
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Susumu Terajima |
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Kanji Tsuda |
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Nanako Ôkôchi |
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A salaryman wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before - attending a funeral, dating but annoying his girlfriend, getting drunk in a pub and getting to know a yakuza and his beautiful mistress, having a gun in his hand and... Written by L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>
Monday is an existentialist movie. For those who are comparing it to Tarantino, please stop reviewing movies. This is more like an anti-Tarantino movie, if it is anything. It questions the use of law. It questions the use of weapons. It questions alcohol. It questions justice versus moral. It questions things that went over my head as well. Does that sound like a Tarantino movie? No, not at all. Please give Sabu the right to call this his own movie, and let this compare-everything-with-Tarantino-nonsense slip away.
Its about a person waking up in a hotel room, not remembering who he is or how he got there. Gradually he remembers more and more, and it kind of goes way over-the-top, but in a way that is both funny and thought provoking. It also has quite a surreal laugh-at-life quality in some scenes that should be mentioned.
Its kind of an intelligent action movie. Let there be more of these!