Tomie (film Series)

Tomie (film Series)

Tomie (富江?) is a Japanese horror film series based on Junji Ito's manga of the same name. It is the longest running Japanese horror series to date, consisting of 9 installments. Junji Ito has expressed his support for the films, often showing up at premieres and even personally picking out the actress Miho Kanno for the role of Tomie in the first film and coaching her for the audition.

The series focuses on Tomie, a beautiful girl identified by a mole under her left eye, who drives her stricken admirers to madness, often resulting in her own death. However, due to her ability of regeneration, she comes back to life to terrorize her killers.

Each cell of her body has the ability to generate into a full grown independent body, causing several copies of her being created after each of her deaths. It is unknown how many copies of Tomie exist in the world although in the most recent movie, Tomie Unlimited, Tomie is shown walking through the streets of Japan, with most of the women she passes by also being Tomie.