Tales of the Unusual

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.

Directors

Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura, Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Suzuki

Writers

Tomoko Aizawa, Masayuki Ochiai, Motoki Nakamura, Katsuhide Suzuki, Ryôichi Kimizuka

Released

November 3, 2000

Language

Japanese