Tales of the Unusual
世にも奇妙な物語 映画の特集編
Release: 2000-11-03
·Runtime: 126m
·★ 6.6
Horror
Comedy
Romance
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Cast
Kazuma Suzuki
as Takuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night")
Shinji Takeda
as Akira Kato (segment "Chess")
Keiko Toda
as Riku (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Koji Yamamoto
as College Student (segment "The Storyteller")
Akira Takarada
Renji Ishibashi
as Old Man (segment "Chess")
Saya Takagi
as (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Ren Osugi
as Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
Tamori
as Storyteller (segment "The Storyteller")
Isao Yatsu
as Old Man (segment "The Storyteller")
Narumi Kayashima
as (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Masahiro Komoto
as Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
Kiichi Nakai
as (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Norito Yashima
as Man (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Akiko Yada
as Misa Kihara (segment "One Snowy Night")
Megumi Okina
as Karu (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Kazuyuki Aijima
as Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
Izumi Inamori
as Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Takashi Kashiwabara
as Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Hideyuki Nakayama
