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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.

2000 |2h 6m |  Horror, Comedy, Romance

Cast

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Kazuyuki Aijima

Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")

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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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Hideyuki Nakayama

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Ren Osugi

Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")

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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")

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Isao Yatsu

Old Man (segment "The Storyteller")

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Norito Yashima

Man (segment "Samurai Cellular")

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Akiko Yada

Misa Kihara (segment "One Snowy Night")

More Details

Status

Released

Language

English, French, Japanese

Budget

-

Revenue

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