Tales of the Unusual (2000)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Kazuyuki Aijima

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

Izumi Inamori

Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")

Renji Ishibashi

Old Man (segment "Chess")

Takashi Kashiwabara

Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")

Narumi Kayashima

(segment "The Marriage Simulator")

Masahiro Komoto

Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")

Saya Takagi

(segment "The Marriage Simulator")

Akihiko Murata

Kiichi Nakai

(segment "Samurai Cellular")

Hideyuki Nakayama

Ren Osugi

Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")

Yukiko Okamoto

Kumi Kato (segment "Chess")

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