• Title: 世にも奇妙な物語 15周年の特別編
• Title (English): Yonimo Kimyona Monogatari - 15th anniversary special edition
• Also known as: Bizarre tales
• Episodes: 1: 5 main segments 15-20 minutes each + some shorter segments
• Broadcast network: Fuji TV
• Broadcast period: 2006-Mar-28
• Air time: Tuesday

Main segments

Replay

• Title: レプレイ
• Synopsis: A man sees his dead girlfriend through his digital camcorder.
• Cast: Ito Atsushi, Ikewaki Chizuru, Tanaka Tetsushi
• Director: Iwata Kazuyuki (岩田和行)
• Screenwriter: Sato Kumiko (佐藤久美子)

Inochibi

• Title: 命火
• Title (English): Life force
• Synopsis: A nurse is able to save dying patients with her 'life force'.
• Cast: Hasegawa Kyoko, Nakamura Shunsuke, Kusamura Reiko, Yamada Natsumi
• Screenwriter: Takahashi Tetsuro (高橋徹郎)
• Director: Murakami Shosuke (村上正典)

Ame no Homonsha

• Title: 雨の訪問者
• Title (English): The visitor in the rain
• Synopsis: A woman visits her sister on a rainy night to celebrate her birthday, but finds a stranger in her house who may be a murderer at large...
• Cast: Tomosaka Rie, Okada Yoshinori, Yanagisawa Nana
• Screenwriter: Oono Toshiya (大野敏哉)
• Director: Kinoshita Takao

Okusanya-san

• Title: 奥さん屋さん
• Title (English): The wife seller
• Synopsis: A man stumbles upon a shop selling perfect wives.
• Cast: Sano Shiro, Toda Naho
• Screenwriter: Haba Sayuri (羽場さゆり)
• Director: Matsuda Hidetomo

Imakiyo-san

• Title: イマキヨさん
• Title (English): Mr. Imakiyo
• Synopsis: A student finds a spirit called Imakiyo in his apartment, and he has to obey three rules or suffer the consequences...
• Cast: Matsumoto Jun, Sakai Toshiya, Kitamura Eiki, Takahashi Mai
• Screenwriter: Nakashima Naotoshi (中島直俊)
• Director: Ueda Yasushi (植田泰史)

List of short segments

• 「山田祭り」 / The Yamada festival
• 「トイレっと」 / To the toilet
• 「痛覚」 / Sense of pain
• 「運命の赤い糸」 / The red thread of fate
• 「サイコキネジス」 / Psychokinesis
• 「リモコン」 / Remote control
• 「占い」 / Fortune-telling
• 「オセロ」 / Othello
• 「彼もまた」 / Him too?
• 「横断歩道」 / Pedestrian crossing

Other Credits

• "Storyteller": Tamori
• Producers: Funatsu Koichi, Iwata Yuji

Fall 2006

Details

• Title: 世にも奇妙な物語 '06秋の特別編
• Title (English): Yonimo Kimyona Monogatari - '06 Fall special edition
• Also known as: Bizarre tales
• Episodes: 1: 5 main segments 15-20 minutes each + some shorter segments
• Broadcast network: Fuji TV
• Broadcast period: 2006-Oct-02
• Air time: Monday 21:00-23:18

Main segments

Kyoko-san

• Title: 鏡子さん
• Title (English): Miss Kyoko [鏡子: also mirror]
• Synopsis: A young therapist at a hospital investigates when a spirit appears and kills people who say "Kyoko-san, Kyoko-san, please make me pretty" to the bathroom mirror.
• Cast: Hirosue Ryoko, Enami Kyoko, Nakamura Aya, Kiba Katsumi
• Screenwriter: Nakamura Shigeki (中村樹基)
• Director: Kinoshita Takao

Bucho-OL

• Title: 部長OL
• Title (English): Manager-OL [office lady]
• Synopsis: An OL and her boss switch bodies.
• Cast: Shaku Yumiko, Ibu Masato
• Story: Ogura Hisao
• Screenwriter: Ogawa Mizuki (小川みづき)
• Director: Sato Genta (佐藤源太)

Kino Koen

• Title: 昨日公園
• Title (English): Yesterday at the park
• Synopsis: Domoto plays a man who loses his friend due to a freak accident. He then finds that through a time slip, he can return to the previous day and save his friend...
• Cast: Domoto Koichi, Yamazaki Shigenori, Harada Natsuki
• Original work: Shukawa Minato (朱川湊人)
• Screenwriter: Sato Kumiko (佐藤久美子)
• Director: Miki Koichiro (三木康一郎)

Neko ga Ongaeshi

• Title: 猫が恩返し
• Title (English): Cat repays a favor
• Synopsis: Emi (Uchiyama) is unable to get over her grandmother's death. Her cat Kuro decides he will cure her loneliness.
• Cast: Uchiyama Rina, Saito Keita, Masana Bokuzo
• Story: Yamaura Masahiro (山浦雅大)
• Screenwriter: Takayama Naoya
• Director: Ueda Yasushi (植田泰史)

Kazoku Kaigi

• Title: 家族会議
• Title (English): Family meeting
• Synopsis: A family of three meet with a car accident, but strangely wake up in their home the next morning. They are then told that they have to sacrifice one of them so two may live.
• Cast: Tanaka Misako, Watanabe Ikkei, Murota Eri (室田恵理)
• Screenwriter: Yasuda Ryota (保田良太)
• Director: Hoshida Yoshiko (星田良子)

List of short segments

• 「超能力研究」 / ESP research
• 「箱庭」 / Miniature garden
• 「オブジェ」 / Object
• 「拡大コピー」 / Enlarged copy

Other Credits

• "Storyteller": Tamori
• Producers: Ogura Hisao, Suzuki Shintaro (鈴木伸太郎), Yanagawa Yukiko
• Music: Haishima Kuniaki (配島邦明)

External Links

• Official web site
• Japanese Wikipedia: "Yonimo Kimyona Monogatari" Fall 2006
• Japanese Wikipedia: "Yonimo Kimyona Monogatari" Full List of Titles

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