Tales of the Bizarre: The Movie

Tales of the Bizarre: The Movie

126 mins | Comedy, Horror, Romance | Nov. 3, 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.

Tales of the Bizarre: The Movie

126 mins | Comedy, Horror, Romance | Nov. 3, 2000

Tales of the Bizarre: The Movie
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers
Original title 世にも奇妙な物語 映画の特集編
Directors Hisao Ogura, Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Suzuki, Masayuki Ochiai
Writers Katsuhide Suzuki, Motoki Nakamura, Tomoko Aizawa, Ryôichi Kimizuka, Masayuki Ochiai

Cast

Kazuyuki Aijima

as Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")

Izumi Inamori

as Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")

Renji Ishibashi

as Old Man (segment "Chess")

Takashi Kashiwabara

as Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")

Narumi Kayashima

as (segment "The Marriage Simulator")

Masahiro Koumoto

as Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")

Saya Takagi

as (segment "The Marriage Simulator")

Kiichi Nakai

as (segment "Samurai Cellular")

Ren Osugi

as Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")

Yukiko Okamoto

as Kumi Kato (segment "Chess")

Megumi Okina

as Karu (segment "Samurai Cellular")

鈴木一真

as Takuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night")

Shinji Takeda

as Akira Kato (segment "Chess")

Tamori

as Storyteller (segment "The Storyteller")

Keiko Toda

as Riku (segment "Samurai Cellular")

Kōji Yamamoto

as College Student (segment "The Storyteller")

Isao Yatsu

as Old Man (segment "The Storyteller")

Norito Yashima

as Man (segment "Samurai Cellular")

Akiko Yada

as Misa Kihara (segment "One Snowy Night")