Strange Tales

A composer was asked to write a new song, but he was having a hard time getting it right. Gradually, he began to suffer from a near-neurotic condition and became bothered by the sounds around him—for example, construction noise and the sound of the television. His symptoms worsened to the point where even the sound of his wife walking in her slippers and the humming of the refrigerator started to annoy him. When he began to find even his worried…

"Don't Stop the Memories of Love" (2019) Though a relatively recent episode, it became a hot topic on social media as "genuinely terrifying" and "trauma-inducing," representing the pinnacle of "Reiwa-era strangeness." Skillfully weaving urban legend motifs with a chain of curses, it re-presents the "terror lurking right next to daily life"—a theme long explored by "Tales of the Unusual"—by combining 90s J-horror elements with modern sensibilities. Starring Yuki Saito, whose gripping performance accelerates the unsettling atmosphere, and leaving viewers with…

TITLE: Tales of the Unusual: Saigo no Hitotoki (The Final Moment) This is one of the segments from "Tales of the Unusual: Spring Special" broadcast on March 29, 2004. Starring Hiromi Nagasaku. The protagonist, Yayoi Suzuki (played by Hiromi Nagasaku), boards a mysterious bus with its destination listed as "Sainokawara" (the Buddhist underworld riverbank for children). The other passengers on the bus are a married couple, a grandmother and her grandson, a punk, a water purifier salesman, a detective, and…