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Tomie: Saishuu-sho - Kindan no Kajitsu
Tomie - Forbidden Fruit
Tomie: The Final Chapter - Forbidden Fruit
Japan 2002
directed by Toru Nakahara
starring Nozomi Ando, Aoi Miyazaki, Jun Kunimura, Yuka Fujimoto, Ayaka Ninomiya, Chiaki Oda, Tetsu Watanabe
based on a manga by Junji Ito
Tomie
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Tomie (Aoi Miyazaki) is the ugly duckling
girl of her class, always bullied by her classmates & having no
friends - so she is more than happy when she meets a beautiful girl also
named Tomie (Nozomi Ando) that seems to be interested in her as a person but also
shares some of her interests. All seems to be perfect until Tomie - the
new friend Tomie, that is - meets ugly duckling Tomie's father (Jun
Kunimura) &
tells him she's his long lost love from 25 years ago & has come back
to be with him - all he has to do is to kill his daughter. At the very
last moment, he kills her instead, cuts her inot pieces & throws her
into the river. When his daughter finds out, she goes to the river &
finds her head ... still alive. She nurtures the head back to health
& it soon starts to grow a new body. But as this newborn being
starts to grow increasingly hatefull, Tomie realizes she has given a new
lease of life to a demon ... & kills her again. Needless to say, the
demon comes back countless times to haunt father & daughter, until
at last, the father seemingly kills off his daughter to have her left
alone & heads off with the demon to god knows where. But the
daughter has kept an ear aof demon-Tomie, & it starts growing a new
body yet again ...
A nice, haunting little tale based on Junji Ito's manga and actually
the fourth in a series of adaptations of the manga Tomie. This one actually
delivers the shocks on a visceral level, but without becoming a gorefest
(which almost seems like a contradiction in itself), and it still has
some very atmospheric moments, which are darkly haunting, but almost
funny at the same time - I liked best when the father has frozen demon
Tomie into an icicle, & father & daughter sit & just watch
her with great affection. |
review © by Mike Haberfelner
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