Tales of the Bizarre: The Movie (世にも奇妙な物語 映画の特集編) 23 years old

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.

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Tales of the Bizarre: The Movie Cast

Name Character
Megumi Okina She was 21, now 44 years old as Karu (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Kazuma Suzuki He was 32, now 55 years old as Takuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night")
Renji Ishibashi He was 59, now 82 years old as Old Man (segment "Chess")
Norito Yashima He was 30, now 53 years old as Man (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Izumi Inamori She was 28, now 52 years old as Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Kiichi Nakai He was 39, now 62 years old as (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Ren Osugi He was 49, 66 years old when he died as Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
Yukiko Okamoto She was 21, now 45 years old as Kumi Kato (segment "Chess")
Kazuyuki Aijima He was 38, now 62 years old as Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
Keiko Toda She was 43, now 66 years old as Riku (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Shinji Takeda He was 27, now 51 years old as Akira Kato (segment "Chess")
Narumi Kayashima She was 58, now 81 years old as (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Akiko Yada She was 21, now 45 years old as Misa Kihara (segment "One Snowy Night")
Takashi Kashiwabara He was 23, now 47 years old as Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Ikue Masudo as (segment "The Marriage Simulator") (as Saya Takagi)
Koji Yamamoto He was 24, now 47 years old as College Student (segment "The Storyteller")
Hideyuki Nakayama He was 33, now 56 years old
Masahiro Komoto He was 35, now 58 years old as Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
Akihiko Murata
Tamori He was 55, now 78 years old as Storyteller (segment "The Storyteller")
Isao Yatsu He was 70, 78 years old when he died as Old Man (segment "The Storyteller")

Tales of the Bizarre: The Movie Crew

Name Department
Masayuki Ochiai as Director. He was 19 (now 42) years old Directing
Masayuki Ochiai as Writer. He was 19 (now 42) years old Writing
Daisuke Sekiguchi as Producer. He was 32 (now 56) years old Production
Ryoichi Kimizuka as Writer. He was 42 (now 66) years old Writing
Mamoru Hoshi as Director. He was 42 (now 66) years old Directing
Masayuki Suzuki as Director. He was 44 (now 67) years old Directing
Hiroshi Takase as Cinematography. He was 45 (50) years old when He died Crew
Hisao Ogura as Director. He was 46 (now 70) years old Directing
Tomoko Aizawa as Writer. She was 29 (now 52) years old Writing
Motoki Nakamura as Writer. Writing
Katsuhide Suzuki as Writer. Writing
Hironori Doi as Original Music Composer. He was 33 (now 56) years old Sound
Tales of the Bizarre: The Movie poster
Tales of the Bizarre: The Movie (23 years)

  • Release day: Friday, November 03, 2000
  • Runtime: 126 minutes