Only on Mondays

Only on Mondays

94 mins | Drama | March 4, 1964

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.

Only on Mondays

94 mins | Drama | March 4, 1964

Only on Mondays
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Nikkatsu Corporation
Original title 月曜日のユカ
Directors Kō Nakahira
Writers Sō Kuramoto, Kōichi Saitō

Cast

Mariko Kaga

as Yuka

Tanie Kitabayashi

as Yuka's mother

Akira Nakao

as Osamu

Takeshi Katō

as Yuka's sugar-daddy

Harold Conway

as Minister