Tales of the Unusual

Tales of the Unusual (世にも奇妙な物語 - 映画の特別編, Yo nimo kimyō na monogatari - Eiga no tokubetsuhen) 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).

Tales of the Unusual
世にも奇妙な物語 - 映画の特別編
Directed by	Masayuki Suzuki Mamoru Hoshi Hisao Ogura Masayuki Ochiai
Screenplay by	Kōki Mitani Katsuhide Suzuki Masayuki Ochiai Ryoichi Kimizuka Mikimoto Nakamura Mamoru Hoshi Tomoko Aizawa[1]
Produced by	Jiro Komaki Takashi Ishihara Yuji Iwai Yoshiichi Iguchi Osamu Tezuka[1]
Cinematography	Hiroshi Takase Osamu Onodera Naoki Kayano Hiroshi Takase Osamu Fijiishi[1]
Edited by	Takuya Taguchi Yoshifumi Fukazawa Masaaki Yamamoto Yoshifumi Fujisawa[1]
Music by	Kuniaki Haishima, Toshihiko Sahashi[1]
Production companies	Fuji Television Toho Pony Canyon[1]
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	3 November 2000 (2000-11-03) (Japan)
Running time	130 minutes[1]
Country	Japan

The TV series “Tales of the Unusual ’21 Summer Special” features the episode “Dead in 15 Seconds”^[2]

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