Tomie: Beginning and Tomie: Revenge Website Live

Hmm is it just me? Can't seem to get the flash page to load and nothing turns up on the trailer page.

Man. I have yet to see any film based on Junji Ito's designs that didn't make me hate Japanese cinema for a week. It's encouraging the original director is involved, but at installments four and five you have to wonder who was more desperate when the cheque changed hands, and we're hardly talking Clive Barker coming back to bookend Hellraiser. The botchfest that is Tomie makes this news equivalent to W.S. Anderson coming back to Resident Evil to "fix" what no one believed Alexander Witt could make worse.

Incidentally, Ito's comics ought to have been at the very least RUMORED for adaptation in Hollywood by now, given their neverending popularity in Japan, and with the "Tomie" and "Uzumaki" fimls sitting on Blockbuster shelves everywhere. Why is it that these genre-perfect, begging-for-remake ideas have not received a passing glance or whisper? It can't be because anyone is worried about the Junji Ito brand. Literally dozens of films based on his works have been conceived and stillborn in Japan. You know how dog blind the industry is when it can't recognize opportunity even when it's fed to them in the only format they know: someone else's.

Hrumph.

Whoops. "Tomie" and "Uzumaki" films. Good thing I cocked that up, almost had a credible rant!

(Thank goodness for with disconnected grammar and, punctuation?)

(to makes someones bbject.)

Dave ... it didn't work for me when I tried with Firefox. Loaded up fine in IE. If it's a widespread problem I'll direct link tot he trailer files ...

sorry, posted by who?

NONE of the Tomie movies I've seen do the original manga justice.

That said, the best Tomie was Miho Kanno (as far as looks & personality go), and my favorite Junji Ito collection (and favorite individual story) is Flesh Colored Horror, with Gyo a close second. Just for the record.

Love J-movies!!!

I think Miki Sakai potrayal as Tomie in Tomie: Re-birth was the best ever.

Im sorry I love Tomie! I have Forbidden Fruit On DVD! I just loved the Comics By Junji Ito! Damnit I havent gotten a copy of the comic yet!

They didn't do justice to the manga on Tomie...but Junji Ito also wrote Uzumaki, which was adapted into a film, and that's pretty good.

...some guy commits suicide in a washing machine tho' o_O