Tales of the Unusual
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2000 · 126 min · Horror · Comedy · Romance · TMDB 6.8/10
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.
Directed by Masayuki Ochiai
Cast
- Kazuyuki Aijima — Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
- Izumi Inamori — Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
- Renji Ishibashi — Old Man (segment "Chess")
- Takashi Kashiwabara — Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
- Narumi Kayashima — (segment "The Marriage Simulator")