Only on Mondays (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.
Director: Kō Nakahira
![]() |
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 |
![]() |
Bill Basson as Captain |
![]() |
Yasukiyo Umeno as |
![]() |
Michio Hino as |
![]() |
Ken Hatano as |
![]() |
Frank Smith as |
![]() |
Hyōe Enoki as |
![]() |
Mikiko Sakai as |
![]() |
Gō Kuroda as |
![]() |
Masaaki Yamamoto as |
![]() |
Hayato Tani as |
![]() |
Takeshi Yoshida as |
![]() |
Reiko Tanikawa as |
![]() |
Kasumi Motegi as |
![]() |
Yoshiko Kitade as |
![]() |
Hideko Ôki as |
![]() |
Kaoru Kiryû as |
![]() |
Satomi Tachibana as |
![]() |
Yōko Yamamoto as |
![]() |
Ganji Kodama as |
| Writing | Sō Kuramoto | Writer |
| Writing | Kōichi Saitō | Writer |
| Directing | Kō Nakahira | Director |
| Editing | Masanori Tsujii | Editor |
| Camera | Yoshihiro Yamazaki | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Kimiyoshi Soga | Assistant Director |