Tales of the Unusual (2000)

Name: Tales of the Unusual
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Released: 2000-11-03
Duration: 126 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Kazuyuki Aijima, Izumi Inamori, Renji Ishibashi, Takashi Kashiwabara, Narumi Kayashima

Tales of the Unusual (2000), directed by Hisao Ogura, starring Kazuyuki Aijima and Izumi Inamori.

11/03/2000 BR Comedy, Horror and Romance 2h 6m

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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.

高瀬比呂志Cinematography
Hisao OguraDirector
Mamoru HoshiDirector
Masayuki OchiaiDirector, Writer

世にも奇妙な物語シリーズ

The franchise in release order. 81 films.

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Tales of the Unusual (Japanese: 世にも奇妙な物語 - 映画の特別編, Hepburn: Yonimokimyōna Monogatari - Eiga no Tokubetsuhen) is a 2000 Japanese horror anthology film directed by Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura and Masayuki Suzuki. Each story is of a different genre - "One Snowy Night" (horror), "Samurai Cellular" (comedy-drama), "Chess" (thriller) and "The Marriage Simulator" (romance-drama). It is the special film version of the long-running TV drama series of the same name (世にも奇妙な物語).

The TV series “Tales of the Unusual ’21 Summer Special” features the episode “Dead in 15 Seconds”

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The TV series “Tales of the Unusual ’21 Summer Special” features the episode “Dead in 15 Seconds”

Writing credits

Tomoko Aizawa, segment The Marriage Simulator

Ryoichi Kimizuka, segment Samurai Cellular

Motoki Nakamura, segment Chess

Masayuki Ochiai and Katsuhide Suzuki, segment One Snowy Night

Cast

The Storyteller

Tamori as the storyteller

Kōji Yamamoto as a young man

Ryuta Sato

Kazuyuki Aijima

Isao Yatsu as an old man

Bokuzō Masana

One Snowy Night

Akiko Yada as Misa Kihara

Kazuma Suzuki as Takuro Yuki

Akira Takarada as Haruomi Manabe

Ren Osugi as Yoshiaki Yamauchi

Mami Nakamura as Mari Kondō

The Marriage Simulator

Izumi Inamori as Chiharu Takajo

Takashi Kashiwabara as Yuichi Tokunagi

Narumi Kayashima

Kazuyuki Asano

Saya Takagi

Yukiya Kitamura

Manami Konishi

Hozumi Gōda

Chess

Shinji Takeda as Akira Kato

Renji Ishibashi as Old Man

Masahiro Kōmoto as Seiichi Tomoda

Yukiko Okamoto as Kumi Kato

Chiharu Kawai

Shōei

Samurai Cellular

Kiichi Nakai as Ōishi Kuranosuke

Megumi Okina as Karu

Keiko Toda as Riku

Norito Yashima as the operator

Ryo Katsuji as Ōishi Chikara

Kairi Narita as Horibe Yasubee

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General sources

External links

Tales of the Unusual at IMDb

KFCC review

Text from Tales of the Unusual on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Unusual

Trivia

It premiered on November 3, 2000, a Friday.
It runs 2h06 — a typical feature length.
Its original title is "世にも奇妙な物語映画の特集編".
It is film 28 of 81 in the 世にも奇妙な物語シリーズ franchise.
This film's quiz has 10 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.

Production

CountriesJapan
LanguagesJapanese, English, French
StatusReleased

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高瀬比呂志 Cinematography
Hisao Ogura Director
Mamoru Hoshi Director
Masayuki Ochiai Director
Masayuki Suzuki Director
関口大輔 Producer
土井宏紀 Original music
Motoki Nakamura Writer
Ryôichi Kimizuka Writer
相沢友子 Writer
Masayuki Ochiai Writer
鈴木勝秀 Writer

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What is Tales of the Unusual about?

Tales of the Unusual: 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 emoti…

Who directed Tales of the Unusual?

Tales of the Unusual was directed by Hisao Ogura, Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Ochiai and Masayuki Suzuki in 2000.

Who stars in Tales of the Unusual?

The cast of Tales of the Unusual includes Kazuyuki Aijima, Izumi Inamori, Renji Ishibashi, Takashi Kashiwabara and Narumi Kayashima.

How long is Tales of the Unusual?

Tales of the Unusual runs for 126 minutes, or 2h06.

What is the correct order of the 世にも奇妙な物語シリーズ films?

The 世にも奇妙な物語シリーズ franchise has 81 films in the catalogue. In release order: 世にも奇妙な物語秋の特別編; 世にも奇妙な物語冬の特別編; 世にも奇妙な物語春の特別編; 世にも奇妙な物語秋の特別編; 世にも奇妙な物語冬の特別編; 世にも奇妙な物語春の特別編; 世にも奇妙な物語冬の特別編; 世にも奇妙な物語真夏の特別編.