Tales of the Unusual

Tales of the Unusual
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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
Produced by	Jiro Komaki Takashi Ishihara Yuji Iwai Yoshiichi Iguchi Osamu Tezuka
Cinematography	Hiroshi Takase Osamu Onodera Naoki Kayano Hiroshi Takase Osamu Fijiishi
Edited by	Takuya Taguchi Yoshifumi Fukazawa Masaaki Yamamoto Yoshifumi Fujisawa
Music by	Kuniaki Haishima, Toshihiko Sahashi
Production companies	Fuji Television Toho Pony Canyon
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	3 November 2000 (2000-11-03) (Japan)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Japan

Tales of the Unusual (Japanese: 世にも奇妙な物語 - 映画の特別編, Hepburn: Yonimokimyōna 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).

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

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

References

General sources

• Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.

External links

• Tales of the Unusual at IMDb
• KFCC review