Tomie: Beginning

Tomie: Beginning

I'll show you what Hell is really like

Part of Tomie Collection

2005•1h 14m•5.5/10

Horror

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.5/10(21)

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.

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Production

Arcimboldo Y.K., Art Port

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Rio Matsumoto

Rio Matsumoto

Tomie Kawakami

Asami Imajuku

Asami Imajuku

Reiko Matsuhara

Kenji Mizuhashi

Kenji Mizuhashi

Kenichi Yamamoto

Akifumi Miura

Akifumi Miura

Inoue

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Satoru Takagi

Takashi Sugiuchi

Yoshino

Yuka Iwasaki

Naoko Ikeno

Nahana

Nahana

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