Tales of the Unusual

Tales of the Unusual (世にも奇妙な物語 - 映画の特別編) is a 2000 Japanese horror anthology film directed by Mamoru Hoshi, 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).

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