Tales of the Bizarre: 2007 Spring Special

2007 1h 55m JA

TV MovieFantasyHorror

Synopsis

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***Sainou-dama A talentless young musician receives a spam email advertising "Talent Balls"--three lollipops which when eaten will awaken your hidden talents and turn you into a savant. However, what awakens within him turns out to be far from what he expects. ***Virtual Memory A women is understress at her job and goes to a store that offers her a machine that allows her to live other peoples memories. What happens when she starts selling hers? ***Funsadan Kyouiku A new teacher finds that her pay is based off her popularity with the students, so she starts to create problems for herself to solve. ***Gozen 2-ji no Chime A writer gets a call at his front gate every day at 2 am, but no one believes him. And then a murder happens and none of the cameras pick the criminal up. ***Kaisou Densha An old man revisiting memories on the subway.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Sho Sakurai
Masakazu Ota (ep Talent Ball)
Aya Hirayama
Manami Mochizuki (ep Talent Ball)
Ai Kato
立花雪絵
Hiromi Nagasaku
名城恵子
Yoichi Nukumizu
Kippei Shiina
Harumi Uraki (ep The chime at 2 AM)
Fumiyo Kohinata
興水
Tamori
Host

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Yasushi Ueda
Writers: Toshiya Ohno, Naoya Takayama, Hayashi Mori
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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ERA

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Released 19 years ago.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Tales of the Bizarre Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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CAST

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Sho Sakurai and Aya Hirayama and Ai Kato carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt18555042 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Yasushi Ueda directs. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 19 years ago.
2Part of the "Tales of the Bizarre Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Sho Sakurai and Aya Hirayama and Ai Kato carry the top of the cast.
5IMDB entry: tt18555042 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.