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Tales of the Unusual
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Wikipedia article
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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 .
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
* Kji Yamamoto as a young man
* Ryuta Sato
* Kazuyuki Aijima
* Isao Yatsu as an old man
* Bokuz 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 Kond
;'The Marriage Simulator'
* Izumi Inamori as Chiharu Takajo
* Takashi Kashiwabara as Yuichi Tokunagi
* Narumi Kayashima
* Kazuyuki Asano
* Saya Takagi
* Yukiya Kitamura
* Manami Konishi
* Hozumi Gda
;'Chess'
* Shinji Takeda as Akira Kato
* Renji Ishibashi as Old Man
* Masahiro Kmoto as Seiichi Tomoda
* Yukiko Okamoto as Kumi Kato
* Chiharu Kawai
* Shei
;'Samurai Cellular'
* Kiichi Nakai as ishi Kuranosuke
* Megumi Okina as Karu
* Keiko Toda as Riku
* Norito Yashima as the operator
* Ryo Katsuji as ishi Chikara
* Kairi Narita as Horibe Yasubee
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