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Tomie: Beginning (2005) · 富江 BEGINNING

Name: Tomie: Beginning
Director: Ataru Oikawa
Released: 2005
Duration: 74 min
Cast: Rio Matsumoto, Asami Imajuku, Kenji Mizuhashi, Akifumi Miura, Yoshiyuki Morishita

Original title: 富江 BEGINNING

2005 · Ataru Oikawa · 74 min · Japan · Edited by 1

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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.

A 2005 entry from the catalog with a clear horror angle. Directed by Ataru Oikawa.

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Spanish: Tomie: Beginning Tomie: Beginning
French: Tomie 6 Beginning
Portuguese: Tomie Begging
Korean: 토미에: 비기닝

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TomieFollowing some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?

Apartment 1303While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her older sister, Mariko, decides to investigate the mysterious death of her sister.

Tokyo PsychoSachiko Kokubu, the beautiful owner of a Tokyo design agency, finds her life disrupted when she receives paper scraps stitched together with piano wire with the message "I know you were meant to marry me." As further messages come she embarks on a nightmare investigation to uncover the identity of her tormentor.

9 + 1Ten actresses live in a folk hotel to prepare musical performances. One of the famous actresses suddenly disappeared without a cause, although less one, but the musical or as usual, but until the end of the show, the missing was still not found, it became a case. A year later, the remaining nine women each received a mysterious letter.

Shojyo SensoA survival action thriller written and directed by Oikawa Ataru, who has been a leading figure on the Japanese low-budget horror scene since his breakthrough work Tomie. Its blood-drenched visuals tell a story of high school girls engaging in a battle to the death as part of a game organized by an underground website. School outcasts Rioka (Ishibashi Anna) and transfer student Yoshimura (Kirishima Rina) enter the world of a game run by an shady website on the invitation of their absent classmate Miki (Minami Yuki). Its objective is simple: a group of high school girls murder each other until one of them achieves seven kills.

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Tomie: Beginning (2005) · 富江 BEGINNING

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