
Tales of the Unusual
Horror · Comedy · Romance
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.
Top Cast


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


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


Renji Ishibashi
Renji Ishibashi
Old Man (segment "Chess")
Renji Ishibashi
Old Man (segment "Chess")


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


Narumi Kayashima
Narumi Kayashima
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Narumi Kayashima
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")


Masahiro Komoto
Masahiro Komoto
Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
Masahiro Komoto
Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")


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


Kiichi Nakai
Kiichi Nakai
(segment "Samurai Cellular")
Kiichi Nakai
(segment "Samurai Cellular")


Hideyuki Nakayama
Hideyuki Nakayama
Hideyuki Nakayama
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