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.
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")
