A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Premiere:
April 19, 1990
# of Seasons: 4
# of Episodes: 217
Finale:
December 7, 1992
Original Title:
世にも奇妙な物語
Alternate Titles:
Tales of the Unusual
Yonimo kimyô na monogatari
Yonimo kimyō na monogatari
世界奇妙物語
奇幻世紀
기묘한 이야기
Genres:
Mystery | Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production Companies:
Central Arts
Daiei TV-Film
Fuji Television Network
KANOX
Kitty Films
Kyodo Television
Newteles
Nikkatsu Studio
Office Two-One
PDS
Sainokai
TELEPACK
TFC
TOHO
as birds
Countries:
JP
Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.