7.0/10 296 votes

Released:
2000-11-03

Overview:
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.

Directors:
Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura, Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Suzuki

Runtime:
2h 6min

Genre:
Horror, Comedy, Romance

• Cast:
• 
  Kazuyuki Aijima
  as
  Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
• 
  Izumi Inamori
  as
  Chiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
• 
  Renji Ishibashi
  as
  Old Man (segment "Chess")
• 
  Takashi Kashiwabara
  as
  Yuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
• 
  Narumi Kayashima
  as
  (segment "The Marriage Simulator")