Tales of the Unusual

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1 User Rating
2 Profile
3 Notes
4 One Snowy Night
5 Samurai Cellular
6 Chess
7 The Marriage Simulator
8 Additional Cast
9 Comments

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Movie: Tales of the Unusual
Romaji: Yo 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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