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Tales of the Unusual

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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
Cinematography
  • Hiroshi Takase
  • Osamu Onodera
  • Naoki Kayano
  • Hiroshi Takase
  • Osamu Fijiishi[1]
Edited by
Music byKuniaki Haishima, Toshihiko Sahashi[1]
Production
companies
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 3 November 2000 (2000-11-03) (Japan)
Running time
130 minutes[1]
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

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  • 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

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The Storyteller
One Snowy Night
The Marriage Simulator
Chess
Samurai Cellular

References

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Galbraith IV 2008, p. 416.

General sources

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  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.
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