Tales of the Unusual

2000

2h 6m

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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.

Writers

Tomoko Aizawa(writer by)
Motoki Nakamura(writer by)
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Kazuyuki Aijima
Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night")
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Izumi Inamori
Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
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Renji Ishibashi
Old Man (segment "Chess")
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Takashi Kashiwabara
Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
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Narumi Kayashima
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
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Masahiro Koumoto
Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
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Saya Takagi
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
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Kiichi Nakai
(segment "Samurai Cellular")
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Ren Osugi
Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
Yukiko Okamoto
Kumi Kato (segment "Chess")
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Megumi Okina
Karu (segment "Samurai Cellular")
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Kazuma Suzuki
Takuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night")
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Shinji Takeda
Akira Kato (segment "Chess")
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Tamori
Storyteller (segment "The Storyteller")
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Keiko Toda
Riku (segment "Samurai Cellular")
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Koji Yamamoto
College Student (segment "The Storyteller")

Writers

Tomoko Aizawa(writer by)
Motoki Nakamura(writer by)

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Release date

November 3, 2000 (United States)

Country of origin

Japan

Languages

English
French
Japanese

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