Tomie (film series)

Tomie
DVD set containing the first 5 films.
Directed by	Ataru Oikawa Toshirō Inomata Fujirō Mitsuishi Takashi Shimizu Shun Nakahara Tomohiro Kubo Noboru Iguchi
Produced by	Yasuhiko Azuma Naotada Itô Yasuhiko Higashi Tôru Ishii Mikihiko Hirata Gen Satô
Written by	Ataru Oikawa Satoru Tamaki Yoshinobu Fujioka Tomohiro Kubo Jun Tsugita Noboru Iguchi
Starring	Miho Kanno Runa Nagai Mai Hosho Miki Sakai Nozomi Andô Rio Matsumoto Anri Ban Yu Abiru Emiko Matsuoka Miu Nakamura
Release date	Tomie March 6, 1999 Tomie: Another Face December 26, 1999 Tomie: Replay February 11, 2000 Tomie: Re-birth March 24, 2001 Tomie: Forbidden Fruit June 29, 2002 Tomie: Beginning April 9, 2005 Tomie: Revenge April 16, 2005 Tomie vs. Tomie November 17, 2007 Tomie Unlimited May 14, 2011
Running time	788 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Tomie (富江^?) is a Japanese horror film series based on Junji Ito's manga of the same name. The series consists of nine installments to date.

The series focuses on the titular Tomie Kawakami, a beautiful young girl identified by a mole under her left eye, who drives her stricken admirers to madness, often resulting in her own death. However, due to her ability of regeneration, she comes back to life to terrorize her killers.

Each cell of her body has the ability to generate into a full grown independent body, causing several copies of her to be created after each of her deaths. It is unknown how many copies of Tomie exist in the world although in the most recent movie, Tomie Unlimited, Tomie is shown walking through the streets of Japan, with most of the women she passes by also being Tomie. The films share no direct storyline connections, all focusing on different Tomies and their stories, except for the first installment and 2005's Tomie: Beginning.

Junji Ito has expressed his support for the films, often attending premieres and even personally picking out the actress Miho Kanno for the role of Tomie in the first film and coaching her for the audition.

The film opens with the police investigating the murder of high school girl Tomie Kawakami (Miho Kanno). They learn that in the months following the crime, nine students and one teacher have either committed suicide or gone insane. The detective assigned to the case (Tomoro Taguchi) learns that three years prior another Tomie Kawakami was murdered in rural Gifu prefecture. Other slain Tomie Kawakamis are discovered stretching all the way back to the 1860s, right when Japan began to modernize. The detective tracks down one of Tomie's classmates called Tsukiko Izumisawa (Mami Nakamura), an art student who is being treated for amnesia. She has absolutely no memory of the three-month period around Tomie's death. Meanwhile, Tsukiko's neighbor (Kota Kusano) is rearing a peculiar baby-like creature. Over the span of a couple weeks, it grows into a beautiful teenaged girl with orange eyes responding to the name of Tomie Kawakami.