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One Monday morning, a man in a black suit wakes up in a hotel room. Takagi cannot remember how he got there, no matter how hard he tries. Then a packet of salt falls out of his pocket. The label says purification salt -- the kind of salt one uses after wakes and funerals to get rid of evil spirits. Suddenly fragments of memories come back to him. Funeral... caf�... bar... yakuza... and what else? Are they just part of his dream or are they recollections of reality? Piece by piece the puzzle begins to fill in. He recalls a funeral. The ceremony is interrupted by a telephone call from the doctor of the deceased informing those present that he forgot to turn off the dead man's pacemaker and that the device will explode if he is cremated. They must cut open the corpse and cut the red wire leading to the device. But when they check, there are two red wires and no blue! Chaos ensues. Takagi meets a gangster and his beautiful moll in a bar, goes back to their nightclub for more drinks then fools around with a gun... with disastrous consequences. He has become a wanted man, and it's no dream.
Cult Japanese director Sabu makes a stunning return to form with MONDAY, his fourth and best movie to date. -- Derek Elley (Variety)
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Script: Sabu.
Phot.: Kazuhiko Sato.
Ed.: Kumio Onaga.
Mus.: Keiichiro Shibuya.
Cast: Shinichi Tsutsumi, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Masanobu Ando, Noami Nishida, Ren Ohsugi, Hikedi Noda, Akira Yamamoto, Akashi Maro.
Prod.: Lee Bong-ou, CineQuaNon, Fontis Bldg., 3F, 2-23-12 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0043 (Japon), t�l.: (81-3) 545 86 57, fax: (81-3) 545 865 72 / CineRocket / Media Factory.
Sales: Fortissimo Film Sales, Herenmarkt 10-2, 1013 Amsterdam (Pays-Bas), t�l.: (31-20) 627 32 15, fax: (31-20) 626 11 55, e-mail: [email protected].
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