Tomie DVD 4 Movie [Tomie, Replay, Rebirth and Forbidden Fruit] Collection (Live Action Horror Movies)
A young girl is hospitalized. When an ultrasound examination reveals that something is moving inside, a surgeon operates. The surprised surgical staff find themselves face-to-face with … not a baby… but the disembodied head of a beautiful girl. Her name is Tomie and she is in the process of regenerating herself. Though you may try, Tomie cannot be killed. She will return to seduce and to kill.
This sets consist of the following movies:
- Tomie: (1999)
- Tomie: replay (2000)
- Tomie: Re-birth (2001)
- Tomie: The Final Chapter -Forbidden Fruit- (2002)
Movie 1: Tomie: (1999), Approx. 95 mins.
Riding the trend of Japanese horror flicks after the wild international success of Ring, this film -- directed by Ataru Oikawa -- centers on a murder victim who just won't die. 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 Kawakami's 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 (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, and is starting to suspect the cause has a supernatural source. 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. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
Movie 2: Tomie: Replay (2000), Approx. 95 mins
Prepare for the ultimate in supernatural screen terror as Japanese horror icon Junji Ito's immortal schoolgirl returns from the grave to torment the living in the third entry of the popular fright series. When a young girl is admitted to a hospital and an ultrasound reveals a moving organism that is living inside of her, doctors waste no time in operating and removing what they discover to be the disembodied head of a beautiful girl named Tomie. Tomie can never die, and as she continues to regenerate, the surgeon who performed the operation becomes infected with her blood. When the surgeon disappears, it's up to his daughter Yumi to find her father and discover the mystery behind Tomie's murderous powers. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Movie 3: Tomie: Re-birth (2001), Approx. 95 mins.
The third installment to Tomie, the Japanese horror series, follows Tomie -- otherwise known as The Girl Who Will Not Die -- to an art student's loft for what she thought was a modeling job. The student makes the unwise decision to murder her, and eventually realizes that Tomie has been haunting him and his friends ever since. Directed by Takashi Shimizu, Tomie: Rebirth also features Miki Sakai, and is based on a manga series from Junji Ito. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
Movie 4: Tomie: The Final Chapter -Forbidden Fruit- (2002), Approx. 91 mins.
In this final installment of the long-running film series adapted from manga writer Junji Ito's wildly successful comic series, the constantly regenerating titular character returns to terrorize an artistically inclined young girl and her widowed father. Slowly integrating herself into the family as she casts a mysterious spell on the lovelorn father, Tomie (Nozomi Ando) nearly causes the grieving widower to kill his own daughter before he snaps out of the hypnotic spell -- dismembering Tomie and dumping her body into a nearby river. When his daughter discovers the disembodied but still-living head of Tomie, she too falls under the mysterious creature's overpowering spell and begins helping Tomie to regenerate a new body. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
