Tales of the Unusual
6.5 / 10
English / 126 min. / 2000-11-03
Storyline:
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 Koumoto
as Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
Saya Takagi
as (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Akihiko Murata
as
Kiichi Nakai
as (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Hideyuki Nakayama
as
Ren Osugi
as Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
Yukiko Okamoto
as Kumi Kato (segment "Chess")
Megumi Okina
as Karu (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Kazuma Suzuki
as Takuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night")
Shinji Takeda
as Akira Kato (segment "Chess")
Tamori
as Storyteller (segment "The Storyteller")
Keiko Toda
as Riku (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Koji Yamamoto
as College Student (segment "The Storyteller")
Isao Yatsu
as Old Man (segment "The Storyteller")
Norito Yashima
as Man (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Akiko Yada
as Misa Kihara (segment "One Snowy Night")
Akira Takarada
as