Tales of the Unusual (2000)

  • NR
  • 11/03/2000 (JP)
  • Horror, Comedy, Romance
  • 2h 6m

Overview

A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain, listening to stories told by one of the group. These include tales of a group stranded in the mountains and haunted by guilt over a death they inadvertantly caused, an emotionally broken chessmaster pressed into playing a real-life game for an eccentric millionaire, a wandering medieval samurai who finds a modern-day cell phone on the ground and a person on the other end asking questions about the past, and a young couple who agree to try a computer simulation of what their future as husband and wife would be like.

Tomoko Aizawa

Writer

Masayuki Ochiai

Writer, Director

Motoki Nakamura

Writer

Katsuhide Suzuki

Writer

Ryôichi Kimizuka

Writer

Hisao Ogura

Director

Mamoru Hoshi

Director

Masayuki Suzuki

Director

Cast

Kazuyuki Aijima's headshot

Kazuyuki Aijima

Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
Izumi Inamori's headshot

Izumi Inamori

Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Renji Ishibashi's headshot

Renji Ishibashi

Old Man (segment "Chess")
Takashi Kashiwabara's headshot

Takashi Kashiwabara

Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Narumi Kayashima's headshot

Narumi Kayashima

(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Masahiro Koumoto's headshot

Masahiro Koumoto

Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
Saya Takagi's headshot

Saya Takagi

(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Akihiko Murata's headshot

Akihiko Murata

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