Tales of the Unusual

Tales of the Unusual
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; ;
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 (Japan);
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Japan

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 Hosi, 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

References

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Galbraith IV 2008, p. 416.

Sources

Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 1461673747. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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[FOOTNOTEGalbraith_IV2008416-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Galbraith IV 2008, p. 416.

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