Oh, Tomie, Tomie, Tomie ... why do you have to be so elusive?
I believe I've seen 1998's Tomie. I went through a barrage of so many J-Horror films at one time that in all honesty far too many of them blended together because I just didn't see enough uniqueness to them individually. Now, that's not a critical assessment: it's just that when you watch, say, two or three or four of them in a row on some nameless weekend in the early 2000's you start to see how one release paved the way for the next without really bringing much new to the trend. That's part of what makes trends into trends; and the home video explosion of the 1990's -- with a massive influx of Eastern imports -- just didn't pave the way for celebrating the flicks on a one-by-one basis.
Well ... that can be rectified now as Arrow Films is going back to the vault for an all-new November release of Tomie. I've just received the details this morning, so I'm doing the dutiful copy-and-paste below. Hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on one of these as it deserves a rewatch and coverage for all of SciFiHistory.Net's readership. That's just how I roll.
In the meantime ... you know what to do.
-- EZ
I believe I've seen 1998's Tomie. I went through a barrage of so many J-Horror films at one time that in all honesty far too many of them blended together because I just didn't see enough uniqueness to them individually. Now, that's not a critical assessment: it's just that when you watch, say, two or three or four of them in a row on some nameless weekend in the early 2000's you start to see how one release paved the way for the next without really bringing much new to the trend. That's part of what makes trends into trends; and the home video explosion of the 1990's -- with a massive influx of Eastern imports -- just didn't pave the way for celebrating the flicks on a one-by-one basis.
Well ... that can be rectified now as Arrow Films is going back to the vault for an all-new November release of Tomie. I've just received the details this morning, so I'm doing the dutiful copy-and-paste below. Hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on one of these as it deserves a rewatch and coverage for all of SciFiHistory.Net's readership. That's just how I roll.
In the meantime ... you know what to do.
-- EZ
Tomie
[Limited Edition]
[Blu-ray]
11/19/24
On November 19, the ‘90s J-Horror box office hit Tomie makes its U.S. debut in a Limited Edition Blu-ray release.
Based on the smash-hit series by cult manga artist Junji Itō (Uzumaki), Tomie is about a detective Harada (Tomoro Taguchi, Tetsuo: The Iron Man), who investigates the murder of high school girl Tomie Kawakami (Miho Kanno, Dolls). He quickly learns this is a bigger case since several of her classmates and a teacher have committed suicide or have gone insane. The detective’s research shows that there was someone also named Tomie Kawakami who was murdered three years ago in a rural part of Japan. Further startling evidence reveals that numerous women named Tomie Kawakami have been murdered for over a century. The detective locates Tsukiko (Mami Nakamura, Tales of the Unusual), a surviving classmate of the latest Tomie. Instead of losing her mind, she merely suffers from amnesia. She has no memory of the time around Tomie’s murder. Tsukiko also doesn’t notice her neighbor’s fast-growing child who begins calling herself Tomie. What is the secret to this woman who won’t stay dead? Tomie’s box office success spawned seven sequels.
The special features include a brand-new audio commentary, new interviews with cast and crew, image gallery, trailer and an Illustrated collector’s booklet with essays.
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