Movie
Tales of the Unusual
Released: November 3, 2000 (2000)
Runtime: 126 minutes
Genres: Horror, Comedy, Romance
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.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Renji Ishibashi as Old Man (segment "Chess")
Age at release: 59
- Narumi Kayashima as (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Age at release: 58
- Kiichi Nakai as (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Age at release: 39
- Kazuyuki Aijima as Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
Age at release: 38
- Saya Takagi as (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Age at release: 37
- Masahiro Komoto as Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
Age at release: 35
Age at release: 33
- Izumi Inamori as Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Age at release: 28
- Takashi Kashiwabara as Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Age at release: 23
Age at release: Unknown
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- Isao Yatsu as Old Man (segment "The Storyteller")
Age at release: 70
Age at release: 66
- Tamori as Storyteller (segment "The Storyteller")
Age at release: 55
- Ren Osugi as Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
Age at release: 49
- Keiko Toda as Riku (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Age at release: 43
- Kazuma Suzuki as Takuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night")
Age at release: 32
- Norito Yashima as Man (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Age at release: 30
- Shinji Takeda as Akira Kato (segment "Chess")
Age at release: 27
- Koji Yamamoto as College Student (segment "The Storyteller")
Age at release: 24
- Yukiko Okamoto as Kumi Kato (segment "Chess")
Age at release: 21
- Megumi Okina as Karu (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Age at release: 21
- Akiko Yada as Misa Kihara (segment "One Snowy Night")
Age at release: 21