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). It is the special film version of the long-running TV drama series of the same name (世にも奇妙な物語).
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| Music by | Kuniaki Haishima, Toshihiko Sahashi[1] |
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| Distributed by | Toho |
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Running time | 130 minutes[1] |
| Country | Japan |
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
- The Storyteller
- Tamori as the storyteller
- Kōji Yamamoto as a young man
- Ryuta Sato
- Kazuyuki Aijima
- Isao Yatsu as an old man
- Bokuzō Masana
- One Snowy Night
- Akiko Yada as Misa Kihara
- Kazuma Suzuki as Takuro Yuki
- Akira Takarada as Haruomi Manabe
- Ren Osugi as Yoshiaki Yamauchi
- Mami Nakamura as Mari Kondō
- The Marriage Simulator
- Izumi Inamori as Chiharu Takajo
- Takashi Kashiwabara as Yuichi Tokunagi
- Narumi Kayashima
- Kazuyuki Asano
- Saya Takagi
- Yukiya Kitamura
- Manami Konishi
- Hozumi Gōda
- Chess
- Shinji Takeda as Akira Kato
- Renji Ishibashi as Old Man
- Masahiro Kōmoto as Seiichi Tomoda
- Yukiko Okamoto as Kumi Kato
- Chiharu Kawai
- Shōei
- Samurai Cellular
- Kiichi Nakai as Ōishi Kuranosuke
- Megumi Okina as Karu
- Keiko Toda as Riku
- Norito Yashima as the operator
- Ryo Katsuji as Ōishi Chikara
- Kairi Narita as Horibe Yasubee
References
Footnotes
- Galbraith IV 2008, p. 416.
General sources
- Galbraith, Stuart IV (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.
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