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Tales of the Unusual

2000·Horror·2h 6m
7.1
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 Mamoru Hoshi and Masayuki Ochiai and Hisao Ogura and Masayuki Suzuki
瘋狂的愛
友子的長夜
門的另一邊
病毒
自殺悲願

Cast

Kazuyuki Aijima
Kazuyuki Aijima
Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
Izumi Inamori
Izumi Inamori
Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Renji Ishibashi
Renji Ishibashi
Old Man (segment "Chess")
Takashi Kashiwabara
Takashi Kashiwabara
Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Narumi Kayashima
Narumi Kayashima
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Masahiro Komoto
Masahiro Komoto
Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
Saya Takagi
Saya Takagi
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Kiichi Nakai
Kiichi Nakai
(segment "Samurai Cellular")
Hideyuki Nakayama
Hideyuki Nakayama
Ren Osugi
Ren Osugi
Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
Yukiko Okamoto
Yukiko Okamoto
Kumi Kato (segment "Chess")
Megumi Okina
Megumi Okina
Karu (segment "Samurai Cellular")

Crew

Mamoru Hoshi
Mamoru Hoshi
Director
Masayuki Ochiai
Masayuki Ochiai
Director
Hisao Ogura
Hisao Ogura
Director
Masayuki Suzuki
Masayuki Suzuki
Director
Tomoko Aizawa
Tomoko Aizawa
Writer
Masayuki Ochiai
Masayuki Ochiai
Writer

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Jagdish
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Tales of the Unusual
i too wish i was a sunglass-wielding, suited japanese man with twilight zone-sque stories to tell at a train station. 

overall, the tales aren’t particularly innovative. perhaps progressive for it’s time (22 years ago) but it’s definately nothing to shout about, if we review it by today’s standards.
i too wish i was a sunglass-wielding, suited japanese man with twilight zone-sque stories to tell at a train station. 

overall, the tales aren’t particularly innovative. perhaps progressive for it’s time (22 years ago) but it’s definately nothing to shout about, if we review it by today’s standards.
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