An artist named Hideo is painting his girlfriend. Just by reading the title of this film, you know that it's Tomie. He flips out when she tells him that his art isn't good, so he kills her and two of his friends help him bury the body. And if we know anything else about these movies, you know that this can't end well.
Everything Tomie can be reborn, from her head, which grows limbs, to even the paint used to make her portrait and outright possession. Even suicide can't stop Tomie, as one of the girls possessed by her tries to jump off some cliffs and she survives. Basically, Tomie is the mistake that you should have never made, but you can't stop her once it all begins.
This version of her story was directed by Takashi Shimizu, who would go on to make Ju-on: The Grudge and - rare for American remakes - even get the chance to helm his own Western version with 2004's Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring movie.
There is one great part in this one: a mother and a son bond while slicing a young girl to bits and hiding her body. Family togetherness. Get it wherever you can.
Everything Tomie can be reborn, from her head, which grows limbs, to even the paint used to make her portrait and outright possession. Even suicide can't stop Tomie, as one of the girls possessed by her tries to jump off some cliffs and she survives. Basically, Tomie is the mistake that you should have never made, but you can't stop her once it all begins.
This version of her story was directed by Takashi Shimizu, who would go on to make Ju-on: The Grudge and - rare for American remakes - even get the chance to helm his own Western version with 2004's Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring movie.
There is one great part in this one: a mother and a son bond while slicing a young girl to bits and hiding her body. Family togetherness. Get it wherever you can.