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Another movie about Tomie, the girl who just won't stay dead. This film is split into three separate stories in which Tomie is at different times in her life, first as a high school student, then as a young woman who falls for a photographer, and finally as a woman engaged to be married to her true love. In each story, she is murdered after her unusual secret is discovered, but she somehow manages to come back from beyond to take her revenge. ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Tomie" (富江) by Ito Junji (伊藤潤二). Edit Translation

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  • Country: Japan
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Dec 25, 1999
  • Duration: 1 hr. 12 min.
  • Score: 6.1 (scored by 103 users)
  • Ranked: #73853
  • Popularity: #17505
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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Hystericmoon
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Aug 25, 2024
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Overall 2.5
Story 3.0
Acting/Cast 2.0
Music 3.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Terrible, pointless adaptation that is painfully acted.

A movie in 3 parts. I gather this was originally 3 short episodes spliced together to make a movie and it shows. There's very little coherence or point in the 3 stories being together as they don't come together at all. Just 3 seperate incidents involving the girl called Tomie. The first story set in high school has some of the worst acting I've in a long time. I actually stopped watching the movie after this story because it was dreadful and returned to it later just to say I finished it.

The actress playing Tomie gives a 2 note performance that is either high voiced cute and annoying or mocking snarly but still annoying with little variation. She reminds me of a cliche hostess faking it in some bad tv drama. I gather the actress was a gravure idol so can't really expect much given the presumed target audience of the movie. But I just didn't buy why any men would like her that much or find her appealing (other than looks?). Her dialogue was very silly and lacked any of the nuance or subtle persuasion and manipulation from the superior original movie. Essentially she is just a caricature and we watch the same premise play out three times. Tomie seduces a man very easily and bad stuff happens.

The move is hammy, camp and silly and mostly overacted. If you like that sort of thing it might appeal for a laugh, and her "seductive" dance in the 2nd story gave me some laughs, but it is very much a straight to video forgettable romp. It's not even gory enough to be entertaining in that way either. It's kinda just sterile and very very pedestrian. Do yourself a favor and watch the far better theatrical movie instead.

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  • Movie: Tomie: Another Face
  • Country: Japan
  • Release Date: Dec 25, 1999
  • Duration: 1 hr. 12 min.
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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  • Score: 6.1 (scored by 103 users)
  • Ranked: #73853
  • Popularity: #17505
  • Watchers: 258

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