Other slain Tomie Kawakami's are discovered stretching all the way back to the 1860s, right when Japan began to modernize. The detective (Tomoro Taguchi) assigned to the case learns that three years prior another Tomie Kawakami was murdered in rural Gifu prefecture. They learn that in the months following the crime, nine students and one teacher have either committed suicide or gone insane. The film opens with the police investigating the murder of high school girl Tomie Kawakami ( Miho Kanno). 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 films share no direct storyline connections, all focusing on different Tomies and their stories, except for the first installment and 2005's Tomie: Beginning. It is unknown how many copies of Tomie exist in the films' universe although in the most recent film, Tomie Unlimited, Tomie is shown walking through the streets of Japan, with most of the women she passes by also being Tomie. However, due to her ability of regeneration, she comes back to life to terrorize her killers.Įach 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. 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.

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

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