Only on Mondays

• Saturday, May 31, 6:00 p.m. Cinema in the German Film Museum
  (Tickets only available at the German Film Museum)
• Introduction by Julian Ross
• Getsuyobi no Yuka
  月曜日のユカ
• Japan 1964, 35mm, 94 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  
• Director: Ko NAKAHIRA
• Script: So KURAMOTO & Koichi SAITO based on a novel by Minoru YASUKAWA
• Camera: Yoshihiro YAMAZAKI
• Editing: Masanori TSUJI
• Music: Toshiro MAYUZUMI
• World Sales: Nikkatsu Corporation
• Actors: Mariko KAGA, Takeshi KATO, Akira NAKAO, Tanie KITABAYASHI, Yasuharu UMENO, Ken HATANO

The most French film of the Japanese Nouvelle Vague, ONLY ON MONDAYS follows the adorable Mariko KAGA in her finest role as good-time girl Yuka through the nightclubs of Yokohama and through the arms of her men. Set on the ports amidst Japan's economic emergence in the year of the Tokyo Olympics, the film is a portrait of a modern woman dressed to impress in a patriarchal society that she learns to keep under her thumb. Effortlessly stylish, the chic clothes, light heart and inventive camera work echoes Agnès Varda's CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 in the way its protagonist floats with exuberance.

Kindly supported by the Japan Foundation.