Tales of the Unusual

Tales of the Unusual (世にも奇妙な物語 - 映画の特別編, Yo nimo kimyō na monogatari - Eiga no tokubetsuhen) is a 2000 Japanese horror anthology film directed by Mamoru Hosi, 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). There is also a TV drama series.

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

• Kazuyuki Aijima, Manabe (segment: One Snowy Night)
• 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)
• Kiichi Nakai, (segment: Samurai Cellular)
• Yukiko Okamoto, Kumi Kato (segment: Chess)
• Megumi Okina, Karu (segment: Samurai Cellular)
• Ren Osugi, Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment: One Snowy Night)
• Kazuma Suzuki, Takuro Yuki (segment: One Snowy Night)
• Saya Takagi, (segment: The Marriage Simulator)
• Shinji Takeda, Akira Kato (segment: Chess)
• Tamori, storyteller (segment: The Storyteller)
• Keiko Toda, Riku (segment: Samurai Cellular)
• Akiko Yada, Misa Kihara (segment: One Snowy Night)
• Kohji Yamamoto, College Student (segment: The Storyteller)
• Norito Yashima, Man (segment: Samurai Cellular)
• Isao Yatsu, Old Man (segment: The Storyteller)

See also

• 世にも奇妙な物語 -Japanese

External links

• Tales of the Unusual at the Internet Movie Database
• KFCC review