Tomie (1998): Cast & 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 Tomorowo Taguchi assigned to the case discovers that three years prior another Tomie Kawakami was murdered in rural Gifu prefecture. Across time, other slain Tomie Kawakamis are found tracing a pattern back to the 1860s, right as Japan began to modernize. The investigation leads the detective to Tsukiko Izumisawa, Mami Nakamura, one of Tomie’s classmates. An art student and someone treated for amnesia, Tsukiko has almost no memory of the three-month span surrounding Tomie’s death, and a growing suspicion that something supernatural may be at play.