Tales of the Unusual

Overview

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.

Release Date

03 November 2000

126 minutes

Director

Main Cast

Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Old Man (segment "Chess")
Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
(segment "Samurai Cellular")
Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
Kumi Kato (segment "Chess")

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