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Tales of the Bizarre

Sci-Fi & FantasyMystery

Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.

Apr 19, 19904 seasons217 episodesReturning SeriesJA

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Seasons

Season 1

39 episodes

Premiered Apr 19, 1990

Season 2

127 episodes

Premiered Jan 10, 1991

Season 3

51 episodes

Premiered Apr 16, 1992

Season 4

0 episodes

Episodes

1–6 of 39

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Ep 1

The Touch of Terror

Apr 19, 1990

15m

Satomi Ayukawa (Miho Nakayama) has a strange power: when she touches an object, she sees the past of the person connected to it. She's just seen an unpleasant part of an arranged-marriage prospect's past. Later, her car stalls on a mountain pass and a man (Johnny Okura) gives her a lift. In the passenger seat she picks up a pendant — and an image of a woman being strangled floods into her mind.

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Ep 2

The Rumored Makio

Apr 19, 1990

14m

High schooler Natsuko Yamazaki (Kaori Sakagami) discovers various rumors written on her younger brother's floppy disk. On a whim, she adds a rumor she invents herself: that if you play with a lone boy named Makio in the park at night, you'll never come home. The rumor spreads instantly and gradually becomes true.

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Ep 3

Consort Yang's Board Game

Apr 19, 1990

15m

Kazuyuki Yamada (Hironobu Nomura) was thinking of marrying Yoko Karasawa (Azusa Nakamura), but she's easily stolen away by a rich man, leaving him bitter. A strange old man appears and tells him of a sugoroku (board game) that Yang Guifei played with the men she gathered in China's Tang dynasty. Reach the goal and you become fabulously wealthy — but whatever is written on the square you land on comes true.

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Ep 4

Locker

May 3, 1990

15m

Industrial spy Satoru (Yuji Oda) sneaks into a bio-chemistry research lab. While copying classified documents he's caught by researcher Kunio Saguchi (Yasunori Danda). Fighting desperately to escape, Satoru kills him. Hearing a guard's footsteps close in and with nowhere to run, he dives into a locker...

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Ep 5

The Spirit of Darkness

May 3, 1990

14m

The old woman who runs a candy shop (Kyoko Kishida) tells the children who visit about the spirits of darkness. Enraged at humans for destroying nature, the spirits — who once attacked people — were sealed behind a wall by a virtuous monk. That wall is inside this shop, and she has guarded it ever since. Then three punks show up demanding she vacate the store...

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Ep 6

My Home

May 3, 1990

15m

Yoshimi Sato (Yu Hayami) and her husband Kenji (Hisayuki Nakajima) buy a used property and get the home they'd always wanted. But right after moving in, a string of incidents — smashed windows and the like — appear to be someone's harassment. With no idea of the cause, the couple grows anxious. Yoshimi consults a detective (Junkichi Orimoto), but he only offers to patrol the area...

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