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Tomie
is a Japanese horror manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito. It centers on a mysterious, beautiful woman named Tomie Kawakami. The manga was Ito's first published work that he originally submitted to ''Monthly Halloween'', a Shōjo manga#Shōjo magazines in Japan, ''shōjo'' magazine in 1987, which led to him winning the Kazuo Umezu award. ''Tomie'' has been adapted into a live-action Tomie (film series), film series with nine installments to date, an anthology Tomie: Another Face, television series released in 1999, and a streaming television, streaming television series was in development for Quibi before the service was shut down. Plot Tomie Kawakami, identified by her sleek black hair and a beauty mark below her left eye, acts like a succubus, possessing an undisclosed power to make any man fall in love with her. Through her mere presence, or through psychological manipulation, psychological and emotional manipulation, she drives these people into jealous r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomie (film Series)
is a Japanese horror film series based on Junji Ito's manga of Tomie, the same name. The series consists of nine installments to date. The series focuses on the titular Tomie Kawakami, a beautiful young girl identified by a mole under her left eye, who drives her stricken admirers to madness, often resulting in her own death. However, due to her ability of Regeneration (biology), regeneration, she comes back to life to terrorize her killers. Each cell of her body has the ability to generate into a full grown independent body, causing several copies of her to be created after each of her deaths. It is unknown how many copies of Tomie exist in the films' universe although in the most recent film, ''Tomie Unlimited'', Tomie is shown walking through the streets of Japan, with most of the women she passes by also being Tomie. The films share no direct storyline connections, all focusing on different Tomies and their stories, except for Tomie (film), the first installment and 2005's ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomie Unlimited
is a 2011 Japanese psychological-body horror film directed by Noboru Iguchi and the eighth installment and reboot of the ''Tomie'' film series, partially contains elements of the manga chapters, such as ''Photograph'', ''Kiss'' and ''Mansion''. Plot Tsukiko Izumikawa (Moe Arai) is a member of the photography club in high school. On her way home with her best friend Yoshie Kazuya (Aika Ota), Tsukiko runs into her elder sister Tomie (Miu Nakamura) who goes to the same high school. Tomie is with Toshio Shinoda (Kensuke Owada) - a guy that Tsukiko secretly crushes on. Per Tomie's request, Tsukiko takes a few pictures of her. As Toshio leaves, Tomie tells Tsukiko that she knows she is jealous of her being close friends with Toshio. Confused, Tsukiko stops taking pictures and watches in horror as Tomie is crushed on her neck by a steel cross that falls from a building under construction, killing her. One year later, Tsukiko's daily life slowly returns to some sense of normality, but sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomie Kawakami
Tomie Kawakami, ( Japanese: 川上 富江, Hepburn: ''Kawakami Tomie'') better known mononymously as Tomie, is a character from the Japanese horror manga and film series of the same name created by Junji Ito. Tomie made her first appearance in Ito's 1987 manga ''Tomie'', which was published in '' Monthly Halloween'', a ''shōjo'' magazine. She later appeared in two subsequent manga written by Ito, nine feature films, and a novel. Tomie is a malevolent, regenerative entity with the unexplained ability to cause anyone, particularly men, to be instantly attracted to her. These actions inevitably lead to violence, usually resulting in the murder of Tomie herself (allowing her to replicate herself), or others. Rather than being one singular person or entity, it would be better to describe Tomie as a ''type'' of creature, seeing as each copy of Tomie is its own independent individual. History ''Tomie'' was written and illustrated by Junji Ito. Ito was inspired to create ''Tomi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junji Ito
is a Japanese horror manga artist. Some of his most notable works include ''Tomie'', a series chronicling an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness; ''Uzumaki'', a three-volume series about a town cursed by spirals; and ''Gyo'', a two-volume story in which fish are controlled by a strain of sentient bacteria called "the death stench." His other works include ''The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection'', a collection of his many short stories, and ''Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu'', a self-parody about him and his wife living in a house with two cats. Ito's work has developed a substantial cult following, and Ito has been called an iconic horror manga artist. His manga has been adapted to both film and anime television series, including the Tomie (film series), ''Tomie'' film series and both the ''Junji Ito Collection'' and ''Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre'' anime anthology series. Life and career Junji Ito was born on July 31, 1963, in Sakashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomie (film)
is a 1998 Japanese horror film directed by Ataru Oikawa. It is the first film in the ''Tomie'' film series, based on a manga of the same name by Junji Ito. Plot In Japan, the police investigate the murder of high school girl Tomie Kawakami ( Miho Kanno). They learn that in the months following the crime, nine students and one teacher have either committed suicide or gone insane. The detective (Tomoro Taguchi) assigned to the case learns that three years prior another Tomie Kawakami was murdered in rural Gifu prefecture. Other slain Tomie Kawakamis are discovered stretching all the way back to the 1860s, right when Japan began to modernize. The detective tracks down one of Tomie's classmates called Tsukiko Izumisawa (Mami Nakamura), an art student who is being treated for amnesia. She has absolutely no memory of the three-month period around Tomie's death, and is starting to suspect the cause has a supernatural source. Meanwhile, Tsukiko's neighbor is rearing a peculiar baby-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomie Vs Tomie
is a 2007 Japanese horror film directed by Tomohiro Kubo. It is the seventh installment of the ''Tomie'' film series, based on the manga series of the same name by Junji Ito, specifically ''The Gathering'' chapter from the third volume. Plot The plot revolves around two children who were injected with the original Tomie's blood, and thus grew into full-fledged Tomies themselves. The process, however, was flawed, causing them to degrade and forcing them to attempt to locate more blood from a "pure" Tomie to sustain themselves. The two girls are fully unaware of each other's existence until one of the Tomies, still a young girl, who is playing outside by herself, finds a dying bird and kills it instantly, only for the other Tomie to come across her. They both ask the other who they are, and both in turn refuse to respond, with them becoming rivals. Years later, a young man named Kazuki who recently witnessed Naoko, his girlfriend, being brutally murdered, is dealing with depres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viz Media
Viz Media, LLC is an American entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California, focused on publishing manga, and distribution and licensing Japanese anime, films, and television series. The company was founded in 1986 as Viz, LLC. In 2005, Viz and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current Viz Media, which is owned by Japanese publishing conglomerates Shueisha and Shogakukan, as well as Japanese production company Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro). In 2017, Viz Media was the largest publisher of graphic novels in the United States in the bookstore market, with a 23% share of the market. History Founding Seiji Horibuchi, originally from Tokushima Prefecture in Shikoku, Japan, moved to California, United States in 1975. After living in the suburbs for almost two years, he moved to San Francisco, where he started a business exporting American cultural items to Japan, and became a writer of cultural information. He also became interested in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Horror
Japanese horror, also known as J-horror, is horror fiction derived from popular culture in Japan, generally noted for its unique thematic and conventional treatment of the horror genre differing from the traditional Western representation of horror. Japanese horror tends to focus on psychological horror, tension building (suspense), and the supernatural, particularly involving ghosts (''yūrei'') and poltergeists. Other Japanese horror fiction contains themes of folk religion such as possession, exorcism, shamanism, precognition, and ''yōkai''. Media in which the genre of Japanese horror fiction can be found include artwork, theater, literature, film, anime and video games. Origins The origins of Japanese horror can be traced back to the horror fiction and ghost stories of the Edo period and the Meiji period, which were known as '' kaidan'' (sometimes transliterated ''kwaidan''; literally meaning "strange story"). Elements of these popular folktales have routinely been use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ComicsOne
ComicsOne Corp. was an American distributor of Asian Comics (manga, manhwa, and manhua), established in 1999. ComicsOne was based in Fremont, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. ComicsOne also served as the distributor for Videotape, videos and merchandise related to its licensed titles. History On March 25, 2005, Comics, industry website ''ICv2'' reported that DrMaster, ComicsOne's Asian printer, took over the publication of ComicsOne's manga titles, though not the manhwa and manhua titles. It also added that ComicsOne had abandoned its website, "stopped paying its bills and has disappeared." Manga published by ComicsOne *''888 (manga), 888'' *''Bass Master Ranmaru'' *''Bride of Deimos'' *''Crayon Shin-chan'' *''Dark Edge'' *''Devil in the Water'' *''Ginga Legend Weed''Feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monthly Halloween
was a Japanese List of manga magazines, manga magazine published by Asahi Sonorama from 1985 to 1995. The magazine focused on Horror fiction, horror Shōjo manga, ''shōjo'' manga (girls' comics), and was the first magazine of its kind in this category. In the 1990s, the magazine launched two sister publications: ''Nemuki'' and ''Honkowa'', both of which continued publication after ''Monthly Halloween'' folded in 1995. History The publishing company Asahi Sonorama began producing magazines publishing Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga (boys' comics) in the early 1980s, such as ''Gekkan Manga Shōnen'' and ''DUO'', but found the ''shōnen'' market too competitive and pivoted to ''shōjo'' manga. During the 1980s, horror films were especially popular in Japan among teenaged girls, while Halloween had recently been introduced in the country as a holiday. In response to these trends, Asahi Sonorama decided to create a ''shōjo'' manga magazine dedicated to horror manga, using the holid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in Japan. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ( and ), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazines (also known as manga anthologies) in Japan (equivale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuo Umezu
was a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor. Starting his career in the 1950s, he is among the most famous artists of horror manga and has been vital for its development, considered the "god of horror manga". In 1960s manga like ''Reptilia'', he broke the industry's conventions by combining the aesthetics of the commercial manga industry with gruesome visual imagery inspired by Japanese folktales, which created a boom of horror manga and influenced manga artists of following generations. He created successful manga series such as ''The Drifting Classroom'', '' Makoto-chan'' and '' My Name Is Shingo'', until he retired from drawing manga in the mid 1990s. He was a public figure in Japan, known for wearing red-and-white-striped shirts and doing his signature "Gwash" hand gesture. Life and career Early life and career Umezu was born on September 3, 1936, in Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, but raised in the mountainous Gojō, Nara Prefecture. His mother motivated him to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
