Tales of the Unusual
Synopsis
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.
Credits
- Yu Ishibashias Rescue Squad Member (segment: One Snowy Night)
- Takayuki Konishias Rescue Squad Member (segment: One Snowy Night)
- Masanori Fujitaas Rescue Squad Member (segment: One Snowy Night)
- Akira Takaradaas Haroumi Manabe (segment: One Snowy Night)
- Kiichi Nakaias Yoshio Oishi (segment: Samurai Cellular)
- Tamorias Storyteller (segment: The Storyteller)
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Principal cast & crew: 19
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Shot by Hiroshi TakaseScored by Hironori Doi
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Cast & Crew
19 unique people credited
Top billed cast
Yu Ishibashi
as Rescue Squad Member (segment: One Snowy Night)
Takayuki Konishi
as Rescue Squad Member (segment: One Snowy Night)
Masanori Fujita
as Rescue Squad Member (segment: One Snowy Night)
Akira Takarada
as Haroumi Manabe (segment: One Snowy Night)
Kiichi Nakai
as Yoshio Oishi (segment: Samurai Cellular)
Tamori
as Storyteller (segment: The Storyteller)
Akiko Yada
as Misa Kihara (segment: One Snowy Night)
Kazuma Suzuki
as Takuro Yuki (segment: One Snowy Night)
Ren Osugi
as Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment: One Snowy Night)
Mami Nakamura
as Mari Kondo (segment: One Snowy Night)
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