Tales of the Unusual (2000)
Synopsis
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.
Cast
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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")
- Akihiko Murata
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Kiichi Nakai
as (segment "Samurai Cellular")
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Hideyuki Nakayama
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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")
Crew
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Mamoru Hoshi
Director
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Masayuki Ochiai
Director
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Hisao Ogura
Director
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Masayuki Suzuki
Director
- Hiroshi Takase Director of Photography
- Hironori Doi Original Music Composer
- Daisuke Sekiguchi Producer
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Tomoko Aizawa
Writer
- Ryôichi Kimizuka Writer
- Motoki Nakamura Writer
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Masayuki Ochiai
Writer
- Katsuhide Suzuki Writer
