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Monday

2000 · 100 min

A wry, disorienting puzzle that keeps you off balance, mixing deadpan absurdity with sudden menace as a hapless man pieces together his own bad day.

Overview
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • deception
  • crime
  • memory
  • identity
  • power
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror2
Humour7
Realism6
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy, crime, mystery, thriller, action
Directed by
Sabu
Written by
Sabu
Starring
Shinichi Tsutsumi, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Nanako Okochi, Naomi Nishida, Masanobu Ando, Ren Osugi, Hijiri Kojima, Akaji Maro
Cinematography
Kazuto Sato
Runtime
100 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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