Tales of the Unusual
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- Movie: Tales of the Unusual
- Romaji: Yo nimo kimyo na monogatari - Eiga no tokubetsuhenYo nimo kimyo na monogatari - Eiga no tokubetsuhen
- Japanese: 世にも奇妙な物語 映画の特別編
- Producer: Daisuke Sekiguchi
- Release Date: November 3, 2000
- Runtime: 120 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Notes
- "Tales of the Unusual" was made to commemorate the first 10 years of Fuji TV's ""Yo ni mo Kimyo na Monogatari (Tales of the Unusual)" television series.
- All four stories are connected by a strangely smiling man in a black suit and dark glasses who tells stories to a group of strangers trapped in a train-station waiting room by a raging storm.
One Snowy Night
- Director: Masayuki Ochiai
- Writer: Masayuki Ochiai, Katsuhide Suzuki
- Cast: Kazuyuki Aijima - Manabe, Ren Osugi - Yoshiaki Yamauchi, Kazuma Suzuki - Takuro Yuki, Akiko Yada - Misa Kihara
- Plot: The survivors of a plane crash find themselves lost in the mountains, with a blizzard threatening and night falling.
Samurai Cellular
- Director: Masayuki Suzuki
- Writer: Ryoichi Kimizuka
- Cast: Kiichi Nakai - Oishi Kuranosuke, Megumi Okina, Keiko Toda - Riku, Norito Yashima - Man
- Plot: Oishi Kuranosuke, the leader of the 47 Ronin's finds a cellphone, with a voice on the other end asking Oishi to confirm historical facts.
Chess
- Director: Mamoru Hoshi
- Writer: Motoki Nakamura
- Cast: Renji Ishibashi - Old Man, Masahiro Komoto - Seiichi Tomoda, Yukiko Okamoto - Kumi Kato, Shinji Takeda - Akira Kato
- Plot: After losing to a supercomputer a young chess master retires from competition. One day a wealthy chess fanatic demands the chessmaster to play one more match, a match involving real life human beings.
The Marriage Simulator
- Director: Hisao Ogura
- Writer: Tomoko Aizawa
- Cast: Izumi Inamori - Chiharu Takajo, Takashi Kashiwabara - Yuichi Tokunagi, Narumi Kayashima, Saya Takagi
- Plot: A young couple experience their future marriage life in a "wedding simulator" with unexpected results.
Additional Cast
- Tamori - storyteller
- Michiko Iwahashi
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