Tales of the Unusual
2000-11-03 | 126 minutes
Plot Summary
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 AijimaManabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
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Izumi InamoriChiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
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Renji IshibashiOld Man (segment "Chess")
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Takashi KashiwabaraYuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
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Narumi Kayashima(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
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Masahiro KoumotoSeiichi 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 OsugiYoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
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Megumi OkinaKaru (segment "Samurai Cellular")
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Kazuma SuzukiTakuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night")
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Shinji TakedaAkira Kato (segment "Chess")
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TamoriStoryteller (segment "The Storyteller")
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Keiko TodaRiku (segment "Samurai Cellular")
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Koji YamamotoCollege Student (segment "The Storyteller")
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Isao YatsuOld Man (segment "The Storyteller")
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Norito YashimaMan (segment "Samurai Cellular")