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”
Contents
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