SeriesSupernatural Psychological Comedy Horror

Tales of the Bizarre1990

Name: Tales of the Bizarre
Genre: Supernatural, Psychological, Comedy Horror
Released: 1990-04-19
Rating: 6.7

6.7

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Year

1990

Seasons

Network

Fuji News Network

Status

Returning Series

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

A Japanese anthology series hosted by the charismatic Tamori, Tales of the Bizarre draws inspiration from classic Western suspense television to deliver a parade of self-contained stories spanning horror, the supernatural, and dark comedy. Each episode drops ordinary characters into extraordinary and often deeply unsettling circumstances, with a storytelling style that leans toward bleak, ironic outcomes. The show balances dread with wit, making no promises of a happy ending — and frequently delivering something far grimmer.

Content: Horror Themes, Dark Or Distressing Endings

Episode Guide

· 10h 13m total· Apr 1990 → Sep 1990

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S1.E1 · The Touch of TerrorPremiere
Apr 19, 1990 · 15 min · Dir: Masayuki Suzuki
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
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S1.E2 · 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 play with a lone boy named Makio in the park at night, you'l
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S1.E3 · 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 and tells him of a sugoroku (board game) that Yang Guifei p
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S1.E4 · 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 desperately to escape, Satoru kills him. Hearing a guard's foot
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S1.E5 · 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 attacked people — were sealed behind a wall by a virtuous monk.