Tales of the Bizarre: Season 1
Episode Guide
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The Touch of Terror
Apr 19, 1990 · 15 min
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-m
The Rumored Makio
Apr 19, 1990 · 14 min
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
Consort Yang's Board Game
Apr 19, 1990 · 15 min
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
Locker
May 3, 1990 · 15 min
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 des
The Spirit of Darkness
May 3, 1990 · 14 min
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 atta
My Home
May 3, 1990 · 15 min
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 — sma
Tales of the Bizarre S01E07 - A Foul Smelling Dead Body
May 17, 1990 · 15 min
Doctor Naoto (Tsutomu Sekine) is about to marry Yoshiko Imamura (Mio Takaki). He buys a used detached house and moves in. One morning he wakes to a foul stench in the house. Unable
The Garbage That Cannot Be Thrown Away
May 17, 1990 · 15 min
Career woman Kaoru Sawada (Junko Sakurada) lives alone in Tokyo, having left her husband and child in the countryside. One day she comes home to find the trash she'd put out that m
The Breath Taking Dinner Table
May 17, 1990 · 15 min
A week has passed since the mother died. Ever since, the father (Toru Masuoka) has been acting strangely. Fumiya is always afraid of him. Meals make the tension worse — everything
Present
Jun 7, 1990 · 15 min
Naoto (Masatoshi Nagase) is drawn to college student Yoko (Sayuri Kokusho), who has a rich boyfriend, Takuya (Yoji Sawamukai). One day the couple comes into Naoto's part-time workp
The Murderer Who Regrets It
Jun 7, 1990 · 15 min
Toshio Sugita (Kai Ato) and his wife Kogiku (Kumiko Oba) are celebrating their wedding anniversary alone. But one interruption after another prevents them from even toasting. Frust
The Family Who Is Too Kind
Jun 7, 1990 · 15 min
Kazuhiko Sagawa (Masato Furoya) runs a con-like gold-selling business. Neglecting his family, his wife and child have left him. On another sweltering day, tramping around rural far
The Monkey's Paw
Jun 28, 1990 · 15 min
The small factory run by Torao Ishikawa (Hiroshi Fuse) is buried in debt and on the brink of bankruptcy. The Ishikawa family owns a "monkey's paw," a keepsake from his father that
The Devil's Video Game
Jun 28, 1990 · 15 min
Around Tetsuo Makimura (Ryo Takayama), his parents, the family dog, and his grade-school teacher have all gone missing. Meanwhile, Tetsuo and a friend sit at a computer. Moments ea
The Hardship After Death.
Jun 28, 1990 · 15 min
Newlyweds Fukuko (Yuyu / Yukiko Iwai) and Yukio die in a traffic accident on their honeymoon. They come to before God (Seijun Suzuki) and beg to be brought back to life. God says h
Halfsies
Jul 12, 1990 · 15 min
Housewife Eiko Kitazawa (Yoshie Kashiwabara) is hesitating over a supermarket bargain — more product than she needs — when Midori Yamagishi (Miyuki Kosaka) offers, "Shall we split
Habit
Jul 12, 1990 · 15 min
Mariko Yoshinaga (Momoko Kikuchi) is beautiful but always dresses and behaves plainly — because whenever she's complimented, she unconsciously steals something. One day she meets R
I Love You to Death
Jul 12, 1990 · 15 min
Junpei Hoshino (Eisuke Tsunoda) has a crush on classmate Mika Saeki (Hikari Ishida), the school beauty. Once he found a Valentine's chocolate from her in his shoe locker, but assum
The Girl in Mourning Clothes
Jul 26, 1990 · 15 min
Heartbroken Kazuhiko Saji (Toru Kazama) sits on a park bench, wistfully looking at a music box he'd meant to give as a gift. He notices a girl in mourning clothes crying and works
Forbidden Games
Jul 26, 1990 · 15 min
Masao Tanizawa (Kenjiro Ishimaru) and his wife Yoshiko (Mako Ishino) go camping with their children. On the way, Masao tells the kids about the cycle of life. They reach a river, w
The Hotel Outside of Time
Jul 26, 1990 · 30 min
Kaoru Inoue (Koyo Maeda) and Haruka Tono (Marina Watanabe) head to their reserved hotel in Karuizawa. But the roads are jammed and, thanks to Kaoru's mistake, the reservation was f
The Man Who Gave Chase
Aug 9, 1990 · 15 min
Officer Norihisa Ninomiya (Tsurutaro Kataoka), who hates lies, is a bundle of righteousness and is admired by his colleagues. Lately a "hammer robber" has been active in the area.
Psychic Power!
Aug 9, 1990 · 15 min
Paranormal researcher Professor Iwase (Noboru Nakaya) has become a leading authority by exposing the tricks of fake psychics one after another. Yet he never denied their existence
The Too-Late Lover
Aug 9, 1990 · 15 min
College student Natsumi (Yoko Minamino) is pregnant by her boyfriend Tatsuo (Takeyuki Yue). But fed up with the mama's-boy Tatsuo ("everything's up to Mama"), she intends neither t
Rooftop Scenery
Aug 23, 1990 · 15 min
Job-hunting Nishihara (Shingo Tsurumi) visits a company, relying on Takano, a senior from his seminar. But Takano's meeting runs long and Nishihara is left waiting. To kill time he
The Woman on the Hill
Aug 23, 1990 · 15 min
Kono (Masaki Kyomoto), an editor at a women's magazine, is on his way to visit the apartment of Endo, a college senior who writes a serialized novel for his magazine. In the rain,
Someone Who Resembles Someone
Aug 23, 1990 · 15 min
Office worker Nishikawa (Keiko Saito) is diagnosed with a mild stomach ulcer at the hospital. On the way home, at a café called "Symptom," she sees someone who looks exactly like a
Live Crabs
Aug 30, 1990 · 15 min
Yukari Matsuoka (Nana Okada) buys live crabs together with a neighbor housewife, Kyoko Kawasaki (Tokie Hidari). When she brings them home, her son Kenichi protests to his father Ko
The Miracle at the Game Arcade
Aug 30, 1990 · 15 min
One day a boy skipping cram school to play at a game arcade is approached by Motoji Toyoda (Kei Tani), who urges him to play a pinball machine in the corner. Score 100,000 points o
Countdown
Aug 30, 1990 · 15 min
Shunichi Saito (Kai Shishido) moves into a run-down apartment. The previous resident, a Russian, left his belongings behind — including what look like suspicious classified documen
Plastic Surgery
Sep 6, 1990 · 15 min
Machiko (Saya Takagi), a country girl who ran away from home, is reborn beautiful through plastic surgery and tries to start a new life in Tokyo. Her wish granted, transformed into
The Man of Great Interest
Sep 6, 1990 · 15 min
Masao Watanabe (Shingo Yanagisawa) is an unremarkable, ordinary salaryman. One morning his family suddenly starts staring at his face. "Don't look at me like that," he says, but th
Hail, Alma Mater
Sep 6, 1990 · 15 min
Yamaguchi (Jun Hamamura), a middle-school teacher during the war, moves into a nursing home. The one who greets him there is a former student, Yoshimura (Goichi Yamada). But Yamagu
Visiting the Grave
Sep 13, 1990 · 15 min
Taichiro Ochiai (Nagareru Hagiwara), consumed by gambling and drink, is chased by debt collectors every day. One day, heading home after drowning his sorrows, he meets an eerie for
The Undelivered Letter
Sep 13, 1990 · 15 min
Keiko Kawasaki (Karin Yamaguchi) despises Yukiko Kawasaki, who lives in the same building. One day a letter addressed to Yukiko is delivered to Keiko's mailbox by mistake. Keiko se
The Human-Faced Grass
Sep 13, 1990 · 30 min
Konatsu Makimura (Manyo Hamada) encounters a strange procession on her way to the village where her grandfather Ryusuke (Masami Shimojo) lives. It's called a "swamp-sending." She r
The Commuter Train
Sep 20, 1990 · 15 min
Twenty-four-year-old salaryman Yuji Sato (Ryosuke Miki) takes the plunge and buys a detached house in the suburbs. The day after moving in, after a two-and-a-half-hour commute to t
Automatic Deposit
Sep 20, 1990 · 15 min
Nobuko (Mariko Kaga) has worked at Orient Trading for 20 years and is the oldest in the office. Nagging and prickly, she's shunned by the younger women. One payday she's stunned to
Grandpa's Love Letter
Sep 20, 1990 · 15 min
Heihachi Negami (Hideji Otaki), posing as his grandson, has been corresponding with a high school girl named Miki who looks just like Yukiko, the girl he loved long ago. One day Mi