Tomie: Forbidden Fruit

Tomie: Forbidden Fruit

Year: 2002

Runtime: 91 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Shun Nakahara

Horror

When a lonely high school girl befriends a strange, mysterious and beautiful girl, it is soon becomes clear that the two girls’ meeting was not purely accidental.

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Antiquities Shop, Hashimoto Family Home, River, Freezer Room, Front Porch, Ice-Sculpture Company

An antiquities shop houses the jewel-encrusted cross necklace that draws Tomie Hashimoto and Tomie Kawakami together and sets the plot in motion. The Hashimoto family home becomes the arena of inherited secrets and dangerous loyalties, with the father-daughter dynamic at the center. The river and the freezer room provide stark, chilling backdrops for life, death, and the uncanny regeneration that defines the film's horror.

🏺 Antiquities Shop 🏠 Family Home 🌊 River 🧊 Freezer Room 🚪 Front Porch 🗿 Ice-Sculpture Company

Last Updated: October 03, 2025 at 10:21

Main Characters – Tomie: Forbidden Fruit (2002)

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Tomie Hashimoto (Aoi Miyazaki)

Tomie Hashimoto is a dreamy, introspective teen who writes homoerotic horror fiction and imagines herself as Ann Bathory the vampire. She endures bullying at school and lives with a loving yet distant widowed father. The arrival of Tomie Kawakami pulls her into a charged relationship that hints at something deeper than friendship and sets the stage for the family’s unraveling.

🌫️ Dreamy 🧠 Introspective 👥 Bullying Victim 📚 Writer

Kazuhiko Hashimoto (Jun Kunimura)

Kazuhiko Hashimoto is a widowed father who is loving but distant toward his daughter. He harbors a long-standing obsession with Tomie Kawakami, a fixation tied to a past relationship that ended in murder. His attraction evolves into coercive control, leading to brutal acts that threaten the entire family and culminate in chilling violence.

👔 Father 🧭 Obsessive 🗝️ Secrets Keeper 🔪 Violence

Tomie Kawakami (Nozomi Ando)

Tomie Kawakami is a mysterious, beautiful girl with a mole under her left eye who quickly destabilizes Tomie Hashimoto's world. She pursues an agenda connected to Tomie H.'s father, using charm and danger to pull strings behind the scenes. Her decapitation and regenerating head anchor the horror, showing a predatory cunning that drives the terror.

🕯️ Mysterious 🪄 Manipulative 🧊 Regenerative

Last Updated: October 03, 2025 at 10:21

Major Themes – Tomie: Forbidden Fruit (2002)

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🩸 Obsession

Obsession drives key actions and fuels cycles of violence throughout the story. Kazuhiko's fixation on Tomie Kawakami echoes in his treatment of his daughter and the family’s fate. The narrative shows how longing can morph into coercion and catastrophic outcomes.

🪄 Identity & Regeneration

Tomie Kawakami's regenerating head literalizes the theme of identity under threat, challenging concepts of self and continuity. The characters' perceptions blur as appearances give way to hidden agendas. The supernatural regeneration acts as a metaphor for how relationships persist beyond trauma.

🧊 Secrets & Consequences

Hidden histories connect past crimes to present danger within the family. Silence about the past fosters mistrust and misdirected loyalties. The narrative demonstrates that secrets, when frozen in time, eventually crack open with deadly force.

Last Updated: October 03, 2025 at 10:21

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