Tales of the Unusual

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.

Country:

Japan

Genre:

Horror,

Comedy,

Romance

Duration:

126 minutes

Year:

2000

Director:

Mamoru Hoshi

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")

Crew:

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Director

Writer

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Director