Movie
Only on Mondays
1964 · 94 min
A cool, clear-eyed character study that drifts with quiet unease, letting you watch a woman navigate a man's world with detached, faintly sad composure.
- Directed by
- Kō Nakahira
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Mariko Kaga, Tanie Kitabayashi, Akira Nakao
- Overview
- Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, cynical, tense and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Gender, power, class, identity
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Kō Nakahira
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Mariko Kaga, Tanie Kitabayashi, Akira Nakao
