Tomie: Replay [DVD]

Great

I now own the Tomie series, buying them individualy was the less expensive option for me. I love this character, she has to ability to regenerate infinitely. Each story is different and has it's own unique plot, this is why I bought all of them. Maybe find one Tomie movie to rent before you start buying them, as I believe this character is not for everyone; she's cruel and sometimes disgusting, she's manipulative, powerful, indestructible and she knows it. These attributes are why I love her, but I could see how they could be off-putting for the more sensative person.

Finally saw ADNESS's release of Tomie: Replay, and I'm happy to say that this is definitely the best Tomie movie I've seen so far. Having already seen three other [bad] Tomie movies before this ("Tomie"; "Forbidden Fruit"; "Another Face"), I went in with low expectations, and got out a very satisfied fan. The movie is very heavily influenced by Ringu, and the plot itself borrows some elements from the "Medical" chapters of the manga, although it should by no means be considered an adaptation of said chapters. Cast-wise, I was plesantly surprised to find Yousuke Kubozuka from the GTO drama as part of the main cast, and he plays his character with a calm, cool, collected approach. Sayaka Yamaguchi made for a cute lead, and I couldn't help but sympathize with her. The other supporting actors did their parts well, with Shun Sugata being the best of them. As for Tomie herself... well, unfortunately, every movie has problems and she's where this one lie. Mai Houshou, while a total babe, just isn't Tomie. Her acting was good and she's no doubt very attractive, but, in my opinion, she just didn't have the right type of beauty for the role. Her hair was all wrong and she lacked the trademark big, round, almond-shaped eyes. I suppose she's still miles above Ando Nozomi from "Forbidden Fruit", but I think the movie would've probably been even better than it is had the directors casted either Miho Kanno or Miki Sakai instead (both actresses, of course, appeared in the original "Tomie" and the sequel to this one, "Tomie: Rebirth" respectively). I'm also not entirely sure what my stance is on Tomie actually transforming into a monster. In the past (both film-wise and manga-wise), Tomie's appearance has always been portrayed as a very human school girl with an enchanting beauty -- any deformity (post-mortem resurrections aside) that would occur were shown to be purely in the point of view of her victims; ie, Tsukiko's photos, Mr. Mori/Hideo's paintings, etc. The ugly monster marks that would occasionally pop up on her face in this movie were quite new and a somewhat different take to the character -- whether the addition is good or bad is fairly debatable.

While I'm binging on everything Tomie this one DVD so far refuses to play on any of my DVD players, minus my PS2. Unfortunately on my PS2 it cuts off the subtitles and I'm sitting there guessing what's going on. It won't even play on my laptop.

This movie was great! Wowie! I have the whole Tomie Collection, and Replay was one of the most rememorable one. And personally, my 2nd favorite out of the 3! Yeah, It was that good. You don't even really have to see the first Tomie to understand this one. You don't have to do it! And that's great! You still understand what's going on. Basically, the movie is about a little girl of 6 years old has "Tomie" head in her tummy somehow, which is strange and never is explained why. And then, the people at the hospital who operated on the little girl end up dying one by one. You can probably read what the story's about. I'm not too good at explaining it, but it really was one of the best Tomie's out there! Check it out!! Btw, tomie is really pretty.

Why do people like this movie? The whole thing is silly. A six-year-old girl is admitted to the hospital with a gigantic swollen belly. The doctors start to cut her open when out pops a woman's full-grown head. And it's alive. Obviously this is not based on a true story. They stick the head in a glass fish tank and within a few months it's grown a body. Around that time the doctors and the nurses that were in the delivery room start to disappear. Some teenage geek who's at the hospital one night takes the girl home. He gets upset, crushes her head in with a telephone then dismembers her in the bathroom. But that's not enough to keep her down, so she reassembles herself and chases him around the apartment. Even crawling on the ceiling. Yikes! After that she chases around one of the doctor's daughter until I started to get real sleepy. That might sound interesting , but its slow, slow, slow. The only good thing I can say about TOMIE: REPLAY is it's better than SHIKOKU. Now that was a stinker!

Tomie Replay ist eindeutig der beste Film der reihe. Ich finde die geschichte Flüssiger und spannender als bei den anderen Filmen. Die Bild qualität ist besser als in denn anderen und die Deutsche synchro ist Top. Wer japanische Horror Filme liebt sollte sich diesen Film mal anschauen. Wer sich nicht sicher bei denn Film ist kann sich ihn ja auch erst einmal ausleihen.

....die Langeweile!!! Der Film ist absolut öde überhaupt nicht Gruselig OK vielleicht ein ganz kleines bisschen psycho. Schnarch... KEine Kaufempfehlung