Tales of the Unusual(2000)

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.

Genre: Horror, Comedy, Romance

Director: Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura, Masayuki Suzuki

Actors: Tamori, Akiko Yada, Kazuma Suzuki, Ren Ôsugi, Mami Nakamura, Yu Ishibashi, Takayuki Konishi, Masanori Fujita, Akira Takarada, Kiichi Nakai

Release date: 2000-11-03

Country of origin: Japan

Length: 2h 6m

Ratings:

• 6.7/10