Tales of the Unusual (2000)
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.
Directors: Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura, Masayuki Suzuki.
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Kazuyuki Aijima as Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller") |
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Izumi Inamori as Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator") |
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Renji Ishibashi as Old Man (segment "Chess") |
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Takashi Kashiwabara as Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator") |
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Narumi Kayashima as (segment "The Marriage Simulator") |
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Masahiro Komoto as Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess") |
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Saya Takagi as (segment "The Marriage Simulator") |
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Akihiko Murata as |
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Kiichi Nakai as (segment "Samurai Cellular") |
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Hideyuki Nakayama as |
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Ren Osugi as Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night") |
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Yukiko Okamoto as Kumi Kato (segment "Chess") |
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Megumi Okina as Karu (segment "Samurai Cellular") |
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Kazuma Suzuki as Takuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night") |
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Shinji Takeda as Akira Kato (segment "Chess") |
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Tamori as Storyteller (segment "The Storyteller") |
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Keiko Toda as Riku (segment "Samurai Cellular") |
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Koji Yamamoto as College Student (segment "The Storyteller") |
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Isao Yatsu as Old Man (segment "The Storyteller") |
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Norito Yashima as Man (segment "Samurai Cellular") |
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Akiko Yada as Misa Kihara (segment "One Snowy Night") |
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Akira Takarada as |
| Directing | Mamoru Hoshi | Director |
| Directing | Masayuki Ochiai | Director |
| Directing | Hisao Ogura | Director |
| Directing | Masayuki Suzuki | Director |
| Writing | Tomoko Aizawa | Writer |
| Writing | Ryôichi Kimizuka | Writer |
| Writing | Motoki Nakamura | Writer |
| Writing | Masayuki Ochiai | Writer |
| Writing | Katsuhide Suzuki | Writer |
| Sound | Hironori Doi | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Daisuke Sekiguchi | Producer |
| Camera | Hiroshi Takase | Director of Photography |
| Art | Takashi Yoshida | Production Design |
