The read
A Balasaur Score of 67 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.7/10. The highest scoring of the 2 titles in its series.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
13 audience votes
Key crew
- Tomoko AizawaWriter
- Masayuki OchiaiWriter
- Motoki NakamuraWriter
- Katsuhide SuzukiWriter
- Masayuki OchiaiDirector
- Ryôichi KimizukaWriter
- Hironori DoiOriginal Music Composer
- Hisao OguraDirector
- Mamoru HoshiDirector
- Masayuki SuzukiDirector
Cast
- Kazuyuki AijimaManabe (segment "One Snowy Night") / Salaryman (segment "The Storyteller")
- Izumi InamoriChiharu Takajo (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
- Renji IshibashiOld Man (segment "Chess")
- Takashi KashiwabaraYuichi Tokunagi (segment "The Marriage Simulator")
- Narumi Kayashima(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
- Masahiro KomotoSeiichi Tomoda (segment "Chess")
- Saya Takagi(segment "The Marriage Simulator")
- Akihiko MurataCast
- Kiichi Nakai(segment "Samurai Cellular")
- Hideyuki NakayamaCast
- Ren OsugiYoshiaki Yamauchi (segment "One Snowy Night")
- Yukiko OkamotoKumi Kato (segment "Chess")
