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.
Cast
Kazuyuki Aijima
Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
Izumi Inamori
Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Renji Ishibashi
Old Man (segment "Chess")
Takashi Kashiwabara
Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Narumi Kayashima
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Masahiro Komoto
Seiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
Saya Takagi
(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
Akihiko Murata
Kiichi Nakai
(segment "Samurai Cellular")
Hideyuki Nakayama
Ren Osugi
Yoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
Yukiko Okamoto
Kumi Kato (segment "Chess")
Megumi Okina
Karu (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Kazuma Suzuki
Takuro Yuki (segment "One Snowy Night")
Shinji Takeda
Akira Kato (segment "Chess")
Tamori
Storyteller (segment "The Storyteller")
Keiko Toda
Riku (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Koji Yamamoto
College Student (segment "The Storyteller")
Isao Yatsu
Old Man (segment "The Storyteller")
Norito Yashima
Man (segment "Samurai Cellular")
Akiko Yada
Misa Kihara (segment "One Snowy Night")
Akira Takarada
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- Release Date 11/03/2000
- Language Japanese
- Directors Masayuki Ochiai, Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Suzuki, Hisao Ogura
- Writers Masayuki Ochiai, Ryôichi Kimizuka, Katsuhide Suzuki, Tomoko Aizawa, Motoki Nakamura
- Cinematographer Hiroshi Takase
- Producer Daisuke Sekiguchi
| Country | Date | Format | Certification |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | Nov 3, 2000 | Theatrical | — |
| South Korea | Feb 21, 2003 | Theatrical | — |
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