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Tales of the Unusual
Film / 2000

Tales of the Unusual

Directed by Mamoru HoshiMasayuki OchiaiHisao OguraMasayuki Suzuki
HorrorComedyRomance

★ 6.8/10Audience rating

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 …

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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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Cast

Kazuyuki AijimaManabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller") Izumi InamoriChiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator") Renji IshibashiOld Man (segment "Chess") Takashi KashiwabaraYuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator") Narumi Kayashima(segment "The Marriage Simulator") Masahiro KomotoSeiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess") Saya Takagi(segment "The Marriage Simulator") Akihiko Murata Kiichi Nakai(segment "Samurai Cellular") Hideyuki Nakayama Ren OsugiYoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night") Yukiko OkamotoKumi Kato (segment "Chess")
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Megumi OkinaKaru (segment "Samurai Cellular") Kazuma SuzukiTakuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night") Shinji TakedaAkira Kato (segment "Chess") TamoriStoryteller (segment "The Storyteller") Keiko TodaRiku (segment "Samurai Cellular") Koji YamamotoCollege Student (segment "The Storyteller") Isao YatsuOld Man (segment "The Storyteller") Norito YashimaMan (segment "Samurai Cellular") Akiko YadaMisa Kihara (segment "One Snowy Night") Akira Takarada

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