Tomie: Beginning (Oikawa Ataru 2005)
Tomie: Beginning
Genre: Supernatural Horror
review in one breath
Within days after the mysterious new student Kawagami 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 which ultimately leads to suicide, insanity and even more violence. Six years after his original 1999 Tomie, director Oikawa Ataru returns to explore Tomie’s “beginnings”.

