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2000 Japanese horror anthology film
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Tales of the Unusual
世にも奇妙な物語 - 映画の特別編
Directed by
Screenplay by
Produced by
  • Jiro Komaki
  • Takashi Ishihara
  • Yuji Iwai
  • Yoshiichi Iguchi
  • Osamu Tezuka
Cinematography
  • Hiroshi Takase
  • Osamu Onodera
  • Naoki Kayano
  • Hiroshi Takase
  • Osamu Fijiishi
Edited by
Music byKuniaki Haishima, Toshihiko Sahashi
Production
companies
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 3 November 2000 (2000-11-03) (Japan)
Running time130 minutes
CountryJapan

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
One Snowy Night
The Marriage Simulator
Chess
Samurai Cellular

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ Galbraith IV 2008, p. 416.

General sources

External links

Films directed by Masayuki Ochiai
Forty-seven rōnin / Chūshingura
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