Tales of the Unusual (2000)
Original title: 世にも奇妙な物語 映画の特集編
Tales of the Unusual is a 2000 Japanese-language horror movie directed by Hisao Ogura and Masayuki Ochiai, with a running time of 2h 6m. It stars Kazuyuki Aijima, Izumi Inamori and Renji Ishibashi.
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.
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What is Tales of the Unusual about?
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.
When was Tales of the Unusual released?
Tales of the Unusual was released on 3 November 2000.
How long is Tales of the Unusual?
Tales of the Unusual runs 2h 6m.
Who made Tales of the Unusual?
Tales of the Unusual was directed by Hisao Ogura, Masayuki Ochiai and Masayuki Suzuki.
Cast
- Kazuyuki Aijima as Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
- Izumi Inamori as Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
- Renji Ishibashi as Old Man (segment "Chess")
- Takashi Kashiwabara as Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
- Narumi Kayashima as (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
- Masahiro Komoto as Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
- Saya Takagi as (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
- Akihiko Murata
- Kiichi Nakai as (segment "Samurai Cellular")
- Hideyuki Nakayama
- Ren Osugi as Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
- Yukiko Okamoto as Kumi Kato (segment "Chess")