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.

Directing:
  • Masayuki Ochiai
  • Masayuki Suzuki
  • Mamoru Hoshi
  • Hisao Ogura

Writing:
  • Ryôichi Kimizuka
  • Masayuki Ochiai
  • Tomoko Aizawa

Stars:
Release Date: 2000-11-03
themoviedb icon 6.4/10
  • Country: JP
  • Language: English | Français | 日本語
  • Runtime: 126

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