Tales of the Unusual
2000·Japan·126 min.
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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.
MusicHironori Doi
CinematographyHiroshi Takase
CastKazuyuki Aijima·Izumi Inamori·Renji Ishibashi·Takashi Kashiwabara·Narumi Kayashima·Masahiro Komoto·Ikue Masudo·Akihiko Murata·Kiichi Nakai·Megumi Okina
Original titleYonimo kimyô na monogatari - Eiga no tokubetsu hen (Tales of the Unusual)