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Tomie has been adapted into a series of Japanese horror films released between 1999 and 2011. There are to date nine films in the series. The 2018 anime Junji Ito Collection was presented with two episodes where Tomie was the main character, and the 2023 Junji Ito Maniac had another episode with Tomie.
Tomie (富江) is a Japanese horror film series based on Junji Ito's manga of the same name.The series consists of nine installments to date. 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.
Tomie Kawakami, (Japanese: 川上 富江, Hepburn: Kawakami Tomie) better known mononymously as Tomie, is a character from the Japanese horror manga and film series of the same name created by Junji Ito. Tomie made her first appearance in Ito's 1987 manga Tomie, which was published in Monthly Halloween, a shōjo magazine.
The anime was first announced June 30, 2017, via Junji Ito's page on the Asahi Shimbun website. [8] In August, the adaptation was confirmed to be a television series with animation by Studio Deen. [9] Shinobu Tagashira, known for his directorial work on Diabolik Lovers, directed and created the character design for the anime.
Junji Ito (Japanese: 伊藤 潤二, Hepburn: Itō Junji, born July 31, 1963) is a Japanese horror manga artist.Some of his most notable works include Tomie, a series chronicling an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness; Uzumaki, a three-volume series about a town cursed by spirals; and Gyo, a two-volume story in which fish are controlled by a strain of sentient bacteria ...
The series was originally announced on June 8, 2022; the series was announced to adapt stories from Junji Ito's The Hanging Balloons, Sōichi, and Tomie manga. [6] The series is directed by Shinobu Tagashira and produced by Studio Deen, with Kaoru Sawada writing the scripts and Yuki Hayashi composing the music, all of whom worked on the previous anthology series adapting Ito's works, Junji Ito ...
Asahi Sonorama re-released the manga again in two volumes as part of the Junji Ito Masterpiece Collection (伊藤潤二傑作集, Itō Junji Kessaku-shū) on January 20, 2011. [11] [12] A new arc titled Tomie: Takeover was released exclusively with the DVD release of the Junji Ito Collection on March 30, 2018, April 27, 2018, and May 25, 2018. [13]
[7] [8] The next theatrical Tomie film was Tomie: Replay that was released on the bottom half of a double bill with Uzumaki on February 11, 2000. [9] [10] In 2005, the film Tomie: Beginning was released as a prequel adapted faithfully from the original manga. [11] [12] Tomie: Beginning ends where Tomie begins. [11]