Tales of the Unusual

Masayuki Suzuki
2000-11-03


6.4
126 min

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

Name Character Team
Kazuyuki Aijima Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller") Unowned
Izumi Inamori Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator") Unowned
Renji Ishibashi Old Man (segment "Chess") Unowned
Takashi Kashiwabara Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator") Unowned
Narumi Kayashima (segment "The Marriage Simulator") Unowned
Masahiro Koumoto Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess") Unowned
Saya Takagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator") Unowned
Akihiko Murata Unowned
Kiichi Nakai (segment "Samurai Cellular") Unowned
Hideyuki Nakayama Unowned
Ren Osugi Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night") Unowned
Yukiko Okamoto Kumi Kato (segment "Chess") Unowned
Megumi Okina Karu (segment "Samurai Cellular") Unowned
Kazuma Suzuki Takuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night") Unowned
Shinji Takeda Akira Kato (segment "Chess") Unowned
Tamori Storyteller (segment "The Storyteller") Unowned
Keiko Toda Riku (segment "Samurai Cellular") Unowned
Koji Yamamoto College Student (segment "The Storyteller") Unowned
Isao Yatsu Old Man (segment "The Storyteller") Unowned
Norito Yashima Man (segment "Samurai Cellular") Unowned
Akiko Yada Misa Kihara (segment "One Snowy Night") Unowned