Tomie: Beginning
Apr 09 2005
•1h 14m
•Horror
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 that ultimately leads to suicide, insanity, and even more violence.
Cast
See allRio Matsumoto
Tomie Kawakami
Asami Imajuku
Reiko Matsuhara
Kenji Mizuhashi
Kenichi Yamamoto
Akifumi Miura
Inoue
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