Tales of the Unusual (2000)

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.

All Releases

Domestic ()
International (100%)
$134,085
Worldwide
$134,085
Summary Details
Earliest Release DateFebruary 21, 2003 (South Korea)
Running Time2 hr 6 min
GenresComedy Fantasy Horror Romance
FilmmakersRole
Mamoru Hoshi Director
Masayuki Ochiai Director
Hisao Ogura Director
Masayuki Suzuki Director
Tomoko Aizawa Writer
Ryôichi Kimizuka Writer
Motoki Nakamura Writer
Masayuki Ochiai Writer
Katsuhide Suzuki Writer
Hironori Doi Composer
Hiroshi Takase Cinematographer
CastRole
Tamori
Storyteller (segment "The Storyteller")
Akiko Yada
Misa Kihara (segment "One Snowy Night")
Kazuma Suzuki
Takuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night")
Ren Ôsugi
Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")