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The Best Episodes of Tales of the Bizarre

Every episode of Tales of the Bizarre ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Tales of the Bizarre!

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,

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    Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 1 - The Touch of Terror
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    #1 - The Touch of Terror

    S1:E1

    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.

    Directors:Masayuki Suzuki, Mamoru Hoshi, Hisao Ogura
    Writers:Masashi Todayama, Tokio Tsuchiya, Junki Takegami, Makoto Hayashi

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  2. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 2 - The Rumored Makio
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    #2 - The Rumored Makio

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    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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  3. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 3 - Consort Yang's Board Game
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    #3 - Consort Yang's Board Game

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    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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  4. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 4 - Locker
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    #4 - Locker

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    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...

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 5 - The Spirit of Darkness
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    #5 - The Spirit of Darkness

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    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...

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 6 - My Home
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    #6 - My Home

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    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...

    Director:Unknown
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  7. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 7 - Tales of the Bizarre S01E07 - A Foul Smelling Dead Body
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    #7 - Tales of the Bizarre S01E07 - A Foul Smelling Dead Body

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    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 to bear it, he fills the place with air fresheners. A neighbor says the previous resident, Shigeo Iijima (Lou Oshiba), is an oddball who lives nearby. Then a wedding ring is found at the back of a closet...

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  8. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 8 - The Garbage That Cannot Be Thrown Away
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    #8 - The Garbage That Cannot Be Thrown Away

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    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 morning sitting by her door. The building manager, fed up with her ignoring the disposal rules, put it there. After a lecture from him, she finds herself unable to throw anything away...

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 9 - The Breath Taking Dinner Table
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    #9 - The Breath Taking Dinner Table

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    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 must be eaten exactly as the father dictates. He dumps huge amounts of salt on the vegetables. Any attempt to talk is brushed aside. Whatever Fumiya does or says, the father grows more and more nervous and irritable.

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  10. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 10 - Present
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    #10 - Present

    S1:E10

    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 workplace; he gives Yoko free cake, and Takuya beats him for it. But when he gets home, Yoko is waiting. "Take me to the sea..." Naoto becomes possessed by her charm.

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  11. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 11 - The Murderer Who Regrets It
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    #11 - The Murderer Who Regrets It

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    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. Frustration builds, they turn on each other, and in a fit of rage Toshio beats Kogiku to death. Coming to his senses, he clutches her body and screams — then, suddenly, time rewinds...

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  12. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 12 - The Family Who Is Too Kind
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    #12 - The Family Who Is Too Kind

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    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 farmhouses, he feels ill. An old woman nurses him and invites him to her home, where her daughter and grandchild seem to live. Then the old woman introduces Sagawa as her son...

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  13. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 13 - The Monkey's Paw
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    #13 - The Monkey's Paw

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    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 grants any three wishes in a lifetime — but for each wish granted, misfortune strikes as payback. Two wishes have already been used. With his wife Shizu (Michiko Shimizu) worried and his back against the wall, the desperate Torao finally...

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  14. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 14 - The Devil's Video Game
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    #14 - The Devil's Video Game

    S1:E14

    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 earlier, delinquent middle schoolers had hassled them and stolen a game cartridge. Tetsuo scans one delinquent's student ID — and a character that looks just like the delinquent rises up inside the computer game...

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  15. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 15 - The Hardship After Death.
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    #15 - The Hardship After Death.

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    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 he'll grant it if they can bring together a certain man and woman — Yoshio Kagawa (Sonomanma Higashi) and Saeko Asakura (Rikako Murakami). But Kagawa and Saeko are like cats and dogs.

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  16. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 16 - Halfsies
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    #16 - Halfsies

    S1:E16

    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 it in half?" The two become friends and keep dividing all sorts of things in half. One day they want a parakeet, but since a bird can't be halved, they decide to take turns keeping it, until...

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  17. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 17 - Habit
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    #17 - Habit

    S1:E17

    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 Ryohei Sasaoka (Ichirota Miyakawa), who falls for her at first sight. When Sasaoka praises her, before she knows it, she...

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  18. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 18 - I Love You to Death
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    #18 - I Love You to Death

    S1:E18

    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 assumed it was a mistake. One day his friend Manabe, whose family runs a funeral home, suggests Junpei fake his own death to test her feelings. With his friends' help, Junpei's funeral is held.

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  19. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 19 - The Girl in Mourning Clothes
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    #19 - The Girl in Mourning Clothes

    S1:E19

    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 up the courage to speak to her. Her mother has died, she says. To cheer her up, Saji gives her the music box. Delighted, she agrees to meet him again at the same time next week — but...

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  20. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 20 - Forbidden Games
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    #20 - Forbidden Games

    S1:E20

    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, where the family eats fish Masao catches. Perhaps influenced by his story, the children bury the fish bones and make a grave. Later, out playing in the forest, the children witness a hunter accidentally shoot his companion.

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  21. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 21 - The Hotel Outside of Time
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    #21 - The Hotel Outside of Time

    S1:E21

    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 for a month ago. Haruka is about to blow up. They search for another hotel, but everywhere is full. Just as they're about to give up, a hotel clerk appears vaguely and shows them to a special room — an oddly old-fashioned place...

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  22. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 22 - The Man Who Gave Chase
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    #22 - The Man Who Gave Chase

    S1:E22

    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. One day Ninomiya spots a man climbing a utility pole with a hammer. In truth the man was only trying to fix a roof, but Ninomiya mistakes him for the hammer robber. As he tries to drag the man down, the man slips and falls to his death.

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  23. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 23 - Psychic Power!
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    #23 - Psychic Power!

    S1:E23

    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 — quite the opposite; his desire to meet a real psychic is exactly what drove his research and made him a debunker. One day Iwase dreams that someone is strangling him. Right after, a man named Kayama (Shiro Sano) comes to visit... (Based on Keisuke Yoshizawa, "Precognition," from Short-Short Theater 4: SF à la Carte, Futabasha)

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  24. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 24 - The Too-Late Lover
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    #24 - The Too-Late Lover

    S1:E24

    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 to have the child nor to marry. Then a stranger, a young man (Naoki Hosaka), appears and asks her — she does fortune-telling as a hobby — to read his fortune. When she reads it...

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  25. Tales of the Bizarre Season 1 Episode 25 - Rooftop Scenery
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    #25 - Rooftop Scenery

    S1:E25

    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 takes the elevator toward the basement staff cafeteria — but though he pressed the basement button, he somehow arrives on the roof. There a man speaks to him and begins telling of the people who commit suicide up here... (Based on Takashi Atoda, "Rooftop Scenery," from Tomorrow's Tale, Bungeishunju)

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Touch of Terror" is the best rated episode of "Tales of the Bizarre". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Masayuki Suzuki, Mamoru Hoshi, Hisao Ogura and written by Masashi Todayama, Tokio Tsuchiya, Junki Takegami, Makoto Hayashi, it aired on 4/19/1990. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Rumored Makio".