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The Tomie Collection

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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.

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 The second film, which appears to have been originally made for Japanese TV, Tomie: Another Look, is a trilogy of stories that shows the different ways Tomie has power over men, and answers some of the questions raised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.

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

Originally introduced by Junji Ito in a running series of sorts and later collected in twice (the latest is in the Museum of Terror books), Tomie has been one of those great reading pleasures. She's the girl you want to have, love to have, and feel with all of your body. She's horrible to you, though, and she makes you want to do horrid things. The worrst has been when someone has opted to turn her to pulp and keep going because, well, she comes back. She kept coming back and kept coming back, too, and that made a great set-up for movies along the same lines. The difference here is that some of them are great and some are not. That's why you really want a set like this to keep you going in the right direction.

In this you get Tomie, Tomie: Another Face, Tomie: Replay, Tomie: Rebirth, and Tomie: Forbidden Fruit. Some of these are really, reall good and some of them are not-so-great but all of them have one key to them. They all have a girl in them that doesn't seem to live a long life, and the mystery of this girl deepens. In the first Tomie you really get a great picture of what is going on, with the first set of "victims" being seen in glimpses. This HAS to be my favorite because some horrible stuff happens here and some interesting movie notions come out on the screen.

I personally liked all of it together but do not like it seperated because tie-ins come in a lot. also, you can follow the graphic depictions of the book Tomie as you go through the stories, making it come to life more. As a WHOLE, I give this 5 stars because of value and because of what is here. If you need to know about the individual components, each is available here and you can check them all out. A lot changes through each and, honestly, each has to be treated so seperately that reviewing it all waters down the over-all theme you are working with.

Ok so as far as Japanese horror goes for this series of movies there really isn't much in the way of horror. For any who are not familiar with Tomie it's about a beautiful young girl who all the guys who come in contact with her immediately fall in love and become obsessed with Tomie. So obsessed that if they can't have her they kill her. When she dies she resurrects and the same people fall in love with her when they see her and just repeats the cycle over again. It's pretty much the exact same plot over and over again, nothing really changes at all. Tomie "Another Face" seems like it was made for a T.V. series that didn't seem to go anywhere with the plot at all. If you're looking for scare factor I do not recommend this at all. Tomie Rebirth had a couple scenes that could possibly make you jump but really no scare factor. On top of all this the five movies that you get with this collection isn't infact the "complete" collection. There are two more called "Tomie the Beginning" and "Tomie's Revenge" and they're impossible to find unless you want to go to a convention and buy them at a rediculous high price or order them off of EBay to look for these. Tomie the Beginning actually explains how Tomie is able to ressurect herself but is really just more or less the exact same plot and takes place just before the first Tomie movie. I gave this 2 stars only because the first one was really the only good one and the rest is like de ja vu. I've only watched these once and will probably not watch these again or if I do it'll probably be only the first one.

I just finished watching all five of these TOMIE movies. What can I say, I love Asian horror, and this series is fantastic! TOMIE is an immortal monster / demon that bewitches men, causing them to worship her, ultimately destroying their lives. This usually leads to TOMIE's death at the hands of her frustrated lover(s). Of course, being a supernatural creature, she quickly regenerates, returning to seek out those who've dared to kill her. Several actresses play the title role, but each is convincing in their portrayal of pure eeevil! The original TOMIE is my personal favorite, followed closely by TOMIE: ANOTHER FACE, a three-part anthology of ghoulish delight! The other three films (REPLAY, REBIRTH, and FORBIDDEN FRUIT) are also good. Highly recommended...

I actually watched 3 of these movies over the weekend. the original was pretty crazy and i didn't quite get what this was all about until i saw the 2nd movie (replay) and then it made more sense..I actually liked the 3rd one (rebirth) more..there is another one that looks like some kind of t.v. movie, which i didn't want to see, but the last one from 2005 called forbidden fruit looks pretty good and will be watching that one this weekend...it just so happens all 5 are at my local video store along with some better jhorror and khorror movies (such as one missed call and face)

These movies are great! This is about a girl named Tomie. She will never die. She never dies.

I've watched many many of these types of films but it was tough slogging thru this. Boring as hell.