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4.0 out of 5 stars
A great buy for Tomie fans!, July 5, 2007
This review is from: The Tomie Collection (DVD)
What can I say, I saw the first Tomie film (in a lousy Hong Kong pressing) and loved it. Then I watched a simiar edition of Tomie: Forbidden Fruit and I was hooked. Seeing the Tomie Collection in Best Buy, it was a no brainer. Five films, nicely mastered with bonus features at this price? Sign me up!
This box includes the best of the Tomie films, there are two later ones not included here.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Tomie, the demon who hunts men, October 30, 2010
This review is from: The Tomie Collection (DVD)
This collection tells the story of Tomie, a demon in the form of a human female. She has an nearly irresistible power over men, damning them to Hell either by killing her or by killing for her. And when she is dead, she comes back again, to prey on more men.
Watching the entire collection fills in a lot of gaps left by any one film. The most mysterious is the first, Tomie, which leaves many questiona as to her purpose and desires unanswered. The second film, which appears to have been originally made for Japanese TV, Tomie: Another Look, is a trilogy of stories that shows the different ways Tomie has power over men, and answers some of the questions raised in the first.
In Tomie: Replay, the true sequel to Tomie, a six year-old girl is rushed to hospital with a distended abdomen. During surgery, they discover the head of Tomie gestating inside the child. Removed, it grows into a full woman, while the hospital workers present to see the event disppear mysteriously. In this one we learn more about how Tomie can affect her victims through infection as well as through her wiles.
In Tomie: Rebirth, Tomie returns to her usual form, multiplying through possession and being killed. In Tomie: Forbidden Fruit, Tomie takes a lesbian turn, the first real sign that she has power over women as well as men.
When you see the first Tomie, your response is likely to be "HUH?" But if you stick with the series, it does start to make sense. Which is reasonable, seeing as the movies are drawn from a much larger storehouse of horror comics by Junji Ito. Some people love Tomie, and some hate the movies, but this collection gives the whole tale a chance to be told, and you can make up your mind from there.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Much bang for your BUCK!, November 27, 2007
This review is from: The Tomie Collection (DVD)
These movies are all excelent! 5 for about, 3.95 NEW! I bought this collection without much knowledge of Tomie and I really do love these movies! They're all great. I highly doubt you'll be dissapointed.
The first movie is,
Tomie. Second, which was super low budget and didn't have much to do with the story line was
Tomie: Another Face. The third movie, which was one of the best in my opinion was
Tomie: Replay. 4th, which was long and neverending...is
Tomie: Rebirth and 5th, my most favorite out of the 5, is
Tomie: Forbidden Fruit.
You can easily rent these movies from hollywood video if you have one, but i'd suggest buying the collection. Since, the price is cheap. The movies are cheap separate, but come on. BUY IT!
If you like tomie movies, there's a few new out that weren't added to the collection,
Tomie - Revenge &
Tomie - Beginning
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