Kazuyuki Aijima
Manabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
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.
Release Date | 2000-11-03 |
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Runtime | 2h 6m |
Directors | Mamoru Hoshi, Masayuki Suzuki, Masayuki Ochiai, Hisao Ogura, Hiroshi Takase |
Producer | Daisuke Sekiguchi |
Writers | Ryôichi Kimizuka, Masayuki Ochiai, Motoki Nakamura, Katsuhide Suzuki, Tomoko Aizawa |