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Tales of the Unusual (2000) [N/A]

Release Date:
November 3, 2000

Original Title:
世にも奇妙な物語 映画の特集編

Alternate Titles:
Tales of the Bizarre
Yo nimo kimyo na monogatari - Eiga no tokubetsuhen
Yonimo kimyô na monogatari - Eiga no tokubetsu hen
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Genres:
Comedy | Horror | Romance

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 126

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Director:
Masayuki Ochiai
Hisao Ogura
Mamoru Hoshi
Masayuki Suzuki

Director of Photography:
Hiroshi Takase

Original Music Composer:
Hironori Doi

Producer:
Daisuke Sekiguchi

Writer:
Tomoko Aizawa
Masayuki Ochiai
Motoki Nakamura
Katsuhide Suzuki
Ryôichi Kimizuka

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