Tales of the Unusual
movie

Released November 03, 2000
Overview
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

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

Izumi Inamori
as
Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")

Renji Ishibashi
as
Old Man (segment "Chess")

Takashi Kashiwabara
as
Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")

Narumi Kayashima
as
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")

Masahiro Komoto
as
Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")

Saya Takagi
as
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
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Akihiko Murata

Kiichi Nakai
as
(segment "Samurai Cellular")

Hideyuki Nakayama

Ren Osugi
as
Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
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Yukiko Okamoto
as
Kumi Kato (segment "Chess")
Crew

Tomoko Aizawa
as
Writer

Masayuki Ochiai
as
Writer
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Motoki Nakamura
as
Writer
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Katsuhide Suzuki
as
Writer

Masayuki Ochiai
as
Director
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Ryôichi Kimizuka
as
Writer
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Hironori Doi
as
Original Music Composer

Hisao Ogura
as
Director

Mamoru Hoshi
as
Director

Masayuki Suzuki
as
Director
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Daisuke Sekiguchi
as
Producer
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Hiroshi Takase
as
Director of Photography