Junji Ito
Total Credits at Criticker: 20 (Writer)
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In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. He seems unaware of her presence and she thinks no more of it. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. Soon other inhabitants become possesed with different forms of spirals, one student seems to be mutating into a snail, another's hair becomes strangely medusa-like. The entire town becomes possesed. (imdb)
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Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are two connected? (imdb)
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A young girl looking through her father's notes finds something written about the last experiment he worked on before he went insane. Everything in his notebook looks ordinary until near the last page, at which point his handwriting deteriorates and the name "Tomie" is mentioned several times. From that point forward his notes are written in what looks like blood. At the same time, another young girl escapes from a hospital. Who is she, and what does she have planned? (imdb)
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Tomie has returned! An art student disappears after murdering his model, Tomie. Now his friends are being haunted by a resurrected Tomie. And every time she shows up, strange things begin to happen! (Amazon.com)
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Tomie: Another Face (1999) - Direct-to-Video
Another movie about Tomie, the girl who just won't stay dead. This film is split into three separate stories in which Tomie is at different times in her life, first as a high school student, then as a young woman who falls for a photographer, and finally as a woman engaged to be married to her true love. In each story, she is murdered after her unusual secret is discovered, but she somehow manages to come back from beyond to take her revenge. (imdb)
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Tomie is found murdered and disposed of in the garbage. Her friends at school are shocked -- who would do such a thing? Naturally, one of the girls in the school thinks she'll take the opportunity to get closer to Tomie's bereived boyfriend. Then Tomie shows up alive at school the next day acting as if nothing had happened. What's going on? (KFC Cinema)
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Schoolgirls are having their fortunes told by a mysterious boy dressed in black--he can predict how their love lives will pan out. But knowing too much about the future can also be destructive... (HKFlix)
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Tomie, a stunningly beautiful transfer student, takes over her new high school class with her ability to reduce men to lovesick slaves and women to jealous wretches. As her classmates begin to go mad, they decide they have to kill Tomie in order to save themselves. But Tomie isn't what she appears to be, and has unique abilities that make her very difficult to kill.
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Long Dream (2000) - TV Movie
Strange things lurk in dreams. For Mukoda Tetsurou and the doctors tending to him, things have begun to get stranger as Mukoda begins having longer and longer dreams every night. Can one dream infinity in the span of a night? (imdb)
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Tsukiko (Moe Arai) is a member of the photography club in high school. On her way home with friend Kae (Aika Ota), Tsukiko runs into older sister Tomie (Miu Nakamura) who goes to the same high school. Tomie is also with Toshio (Kensuke Owada) - a guy Tsukiko has a secret crush on. Tsukiko is consumed with fierce jealousy over her sister, but at the same time is intoxicated with Tomie's beauty. Tsukiko keeps pressing the trigger on her camera.
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Gyo (2012) - Direct-to-Video
Something in Okinawa reeks, and it isn't long before Kaori and her friends realize that the smell is coming from dead fish, which are walking out of the sea. The fish are fused to metal legs and are infected with a disease contractable by humans that was invented as a weapon by unknown sources. After what happens to Tadashi, Kaori finds herself in a new world very much like the old one but with the stench of death. (AniDB)
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The search for her vanished brother Tsuyoshi leads Kaoru to the lonesome village Kozukata in the Japanese back-land. The locals react repelling to her, which the exception of the Chinese girl Sally. As her car breaks down Kaoru is trapped in the village; will she have to repay for something she has done in the past? (imdb)
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A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods. (imdb)
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A young, depressed man is trying to move on with his life after his girlfriend's bizarre death. One day, a mysterious woman notices him at work and convinces his coworkers to introduce him to her. (imdb)
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This time the five bizarre tales are the work compilation of famous manga artists including Oda Eiichiro. In the story "Gomu Gomu no Otoko", Monkey D. Luffy makes a special appearance. 1) Omote 2) Jishibarimono 3) Gomu Gomu no Otoko 4) Mushitachi no Ie 5) Jibun o Shinjita Otoko
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From the mind of horror manga maestro Junji Ito comes a spine-tingling selection of some of his most bizarre, disturbing and terrifying tales. (netflix.com)
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The Fearsome Melody (1992) - Short Film
A haunted melody, a used record one must possess. At any cost. Adapted from Junji Ito's short story Used Record.
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The Hanging Balloons (2000) - Direct-to-Video
Film adaptation of three short stories by horror mangaka Junji Ito: The Devil's Logic, The Long Hair in the Attic, and The Hanging Balloons.
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Uzumaki (2024) - TV Mini-Series
The series tells the story of the residents of a fictional town called Kurozu-cho, which is under the influence of a supernatural spiral-shaped curse.
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