Most of the Tomie films adapt one or more chapters of the original manga although a couple – including the one I watched last night – are original stories springboarding from the ideas presented in the original work.įull disclosure – I’ve seen none of the previous Tomie movies. There’s more to it than that – a lot more, including cannibalism, regeneration, infection and duplication – but that’s the basic gist. All of them feature the title character, who is a creature who possesses the ability to seduce men (and occasionally women) and drive them into fits of jealous rage, causing them to brutally murder her.Īnd then she comes back and the cycle starts again. At this date there are something like nine Tomie movies. There have been a number of film adaptations of Ito’s work – I really want to see the live action Uzumaki movie some day – but Tomie has received the most by far. I’ve got big hardcover collections of Uzimaki and Gyo downstairs, but haven’t yet managed to pick up a collection of Tomie, his first major series. I haven’t read everything by the man, but I hope to some day. Junji Ito is a master of horror manga – a mild-mannered creator of unsettling images and stories that occasionally freak you right the hell out.
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