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, Yo nimo kimyō na 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).

## 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
