Soon after, all five of the hospital workers present during the operation mysteriously leave the hospital or disappear entirely. The head is placed in a tank of alkaline solution in the basement of the hospital for further observation. Doctors begin to operate and find a disembodied head, Tomie's head, alive and growing inside the girl's belly. The film begins with a six-year-old girl being rushed into a hospital ER with an unusually distended stomach. Tomie: Replay (2000) - This film contains elements of the manga chapter 'Basement'.Over the span of a couple weeks, it grows into a beautiful teenaged girl with orange eyes responding to the name of Tomie Kawakami. Meanwhile, Tsukiko's neighbor (Kota Kusano) is rearing a peculiar baby-like creature. She has absolutely no memory of the three-month period around Tomie's death. The detective tracks down one of Tomie's classmates called Tsukiko (Mami Nakamura), an art student who is being treated for amnesia.

Other slain Tomie Kawakami's are discovered stretching all the way back to the 1860s, right when Japan began to modernize. The detective assigned to the case (Tomoro Taguchi) learns that three years prior another Tomie Kawakami was murdered in rural Gifu prefecture. They learn that in the months following the crime, nine students and one teacher have either committed suicide or gone insane.

Tomie (1999) - The original film opens with the police investigating the murder of high school girl Tomie Kawakami (Miho Kanno).

A hardcover omnibus version of the manga was released in 2016 by VIZ Media. The franchise encompasses a 3-volume manga, nine feature films (one of them being a spliced-together, short-lived TV drama released as a feature), and some additional media and merchandise. As the series goes on, the full extent of Tomie’s mysterious powers are unveiled, and it eventually turns out that with every death, duplicates begin to appear. But the problem is that not even death can bring her down. It becomes evident that Tomie is an incredibly unpleasant person who seems to exist only to torment others.

Structured as an anthology, the manga revolves around the unnaturally beautiful Tomie as she starts a new life in one city after another, influencing new people, making new friends. Tomie is a horror manga by Junji Ito that predates the well-known Uzumaki and The Enigma of Amigara Fault, which follows the titular woman and how her presence affects those around her, especially men.

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