Tales of the Unusual (2000)

Original title

世にも奇妙な物語 映画の特集編

Directed by

Masayuki Ochiai

Genre

horror film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 06m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Japanese film tells four separate stories, each with its own genre. One is a horror tale set during a snowy night, one is a comedic drama about a samurai with a cellphone, one is a thriller involving a chess game, and the last is a romantic drama about a marriage simulator.

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What happens

Tales of the Unusual (Japanese: 世にも奇妙な物語 - 映画の特別編, Hepburn: Yonimokimyōna 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). The TV series “Tales of the Unusual ’21 Summer Special” features the episode “Dead in 15 Seconds” (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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