Tales of the Unusual (2000)
2h 6m
Running Time
November 3, 2000Release Date
Tales of the Unusual (2000)
2h 6m
Running Time
November 3, 2000Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.
Kazuyuki Aijima
Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night")
Izumi Inamori
Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Renji Ishibashi
Old Man (segment "Chess")
Shojiro Nakaoka
Old Man (segment "Chess")
Takashi Kashiwabara
Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Narumi Kayashima
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Masahiro Koumoto
Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
Saya Takagi
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Ikue Masudo
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Akihiko Murata
Actor
Kiichi Nakai
(segment "Samurai Cellular")
Ren Osugi
Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment 'One Snowy Night')
Yukiko Okamoto
Kumi Kato (segment 'Chess')
Hideyuki Nakayama
Actor
Mamoru Hoshi
Director
Megumi Okina
Karu (segment 'Samurai Cellular')
Kazuma Suzuki
Takuro Yuki (segment 'One Snowy Night')
Masayuki Ochiai
Director
Shinji Takeda
Akira Kato (segment 'Chess')
Hisao Ogura
Director
Tamori
Storyteller (segment 'The Storyteller')
Masayuki Suzuki
Director
Tomoko Aizawa
Writer
Keiko Toda
Riku (segment 'Samurai Cellular')
Details.
Release DateNovember 3, 2000
Original Name世にも奇妙な物語 映画の特集編
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 6m
Genres
Wiki.
Tales of the Unusual (世にも奇妙な物語 - 映画の特別編, Yo nimo kimyō na monogatari - Eiga no tokubetsuhen) is a 2000 Japanese horror anthology film directed by Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura and Masayuki Suzuki. Each story is of a different genre - "One Snowy Night" (horror), "Samurai Cellular" (comedy-drama), "Chess" (thriller) and "The Marriage Simulator" (romance-drama). It is the special film version of the long-running TV drama series of the same name (世にも奇妙な物語).