Tomie: Beginning

"I'll show you what Hell is really like"

2005 1h 14m JA

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5.6

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★5.6TMDB · 24

Horror

Synopsis

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Within days after the mysterious new student Kawakami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, culminating in a grizzly dissection that ultimately leads to suicide, insanity, and even more violence.

“I'll show you what Hell is really like”

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Cast

Rio Matsumoto
Tomie Kawakami
Asami Imajuku
Reiko Matsuhara
Kenji Mizuhashi
Kenichi Yamamoto
Akifumi Miura
Inoue
Yoshiyuki Morishita
Satoru Takagi
Takashi Sugiuchi
Yoshino
Yuka Iwasaki
Naoko Ikeno
Nahana

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Ataru Oikawa
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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Fun facts 🍿

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RUNTIME

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Tight 74-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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ERA

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Released 21 years ago.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Tomie Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 8

CAST

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Rio Matsumoto and Asami Imajuku and Kenji Mizuhashi carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "I'll show you what Hell is really like".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0474962 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 24 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Ataru Oikawa directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 74-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Released 21 years ago.
3Part of the "Tomie Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Rio Matsumoto and Asami Imajuku and Kenji Mizuhashi carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "I'll show you what Hell is really like".
7IMDB entry: tt0474962 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 24 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Runtime: 74 min · 1h 14m
Status: Released
Original language: JA
IMDB: Tomie: Beginning (2005)

Part of

Tomie Collection

The Tomie film series is a Japanese horror franchise based on a popular manga about a murderous humanoid creature that goes undercover as a beautiful teenage schoolgirl. This collection includes all nine films in the series.