Tales of the Unusual

Year: 2000

Runtime: 126 mins

Language: Japanese

Directors: Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura

HorrorComedyRomance

A four‑part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone opens with commuters stranded in rain at a train station, listening as one tells eerie stories. They include hikers trapped on a mountain haunted by guilt over an accidental death, a broken chess master forced into a deadly game for an eccentric millionaire, a medieval samurai who discovers a modern cellphone that connects him to a mysterious voice asking about the past, and a young couple who test a computer simulation of their possible future together.

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