title: Tales of the Unusual
text: # Tales of the Unusual
  
  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
  
  * Tamori as the storyteller
  * Kōji Yamamoto as a young man
  * Ryuta Sato
  * Kazuyuki Aijima
  * Isao Yatsu as an old man
  * Bokuzō Masana
  
  ### One Snowy Night
  
  * Akiko Yada as Misa Kihara
  * Kazuma Suzuki as Takuro Yuki
  * Akira Takarada as Haruomi Manabe
  * Ren Osugi as Yoshiaki Yamauchi
  * Mami Nakamura as Mari Kondō
  
  ### The Marriage Simulator
  
  * Izumi Inamori as Chiharu Takajo
  * Takashi Kashiwabara as Yuichi Tokunagi
  * Narumi Kayashima
  * Kazuyuki Asano
  * Saya Takagi
  * Yukiya Kitamura
  * Manami Konishi
  * Hozumi Gōda
  
  ### Chess
  
  * Shinji Takeda as Akira Kato
  * Renji Ishibashi as Old Man
  * Masahiro Kōmoto as Seiichi Tomoda
  * Yukiko Okamoto as Kumi Kato
  * Chiharu Kawai
  * Shōei
  
  ### Samurai Cellular
  
  * Kiichi Nakai as Ōishi Kuranosuke
  * Megumi Okina as Karu
  * Keiko Toda as Riku
  * Norito Yashima as the operator
  * Ryo Katsuji as Ōishi Chikara
  * Kairi Narita as Horibe Yasubee
  