Movies like Tomie: Forbidden Fruit (2002)
The best movies like Tomie: Forbidden Fruit (2002) are Tomie: Replay (2000), Ju-rei: The Uncanny (2004) and Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014). If Tomie: Forbidden Fruit hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Boogeyman (2023)6.4/10 from 1,219 votes
- NewestNever After Dark (2026)Released 2026
- In JapaneseTomie: Replay (2000)Also in Japanese
- Same seriesTomie: Replay (2000)Tomie
Tomie: Replay (2000)
Infected with Tomie's blood, a surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.
Why it matches: Same series: Tomie · both horror
Ju-rei: The Uncanny (2004)
A group of high school girls discover the truth to an urban legend when one by one, each begins to die under mysterious circumstances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014)
A school teacher visits the home of a boy who's been absent from school for a long period of time, unaware of the horrific tragedy which occurred in the boy's household many years ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCarved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)
Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young victims and, while removing the mask, ask if she was pretty. The victim’s response would almost always lead to their violent death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRing of Curse (2011)
In observing a solitary classmate, a student begins to suspect that the loner has the ability to write words that will kill those who read them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Tomie: Unlimited (2011)
Tsukiko is part of the photography club at school, but has always felt less than her sister Tomie. She's cute and very popular among boys. However, one day, Tomie dies in a horrible accident, triggering endless nightmares for Tsukiko. One year later, right when Tomie was supposed to turn 18, someone knocks on the door. Tomie is back.
Why it matches: Same series: Tomie · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDetective Story (2007)
A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Marebito (2004)
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Ghost (2001)
Teenager Midori's family moves back to the city where she lived as a child and is relieved to discover that her old friend Ryusuke still lives there. Her terrifying nightmares begin intersecting with her everyday life. Do her nightly dreams about an anonymous fortune-teller have anything to do with the tragedies plaguing her high school?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Celluloid Nightmares (1999)
A female reporter is filming an investigation report about a missing porn actress in Japan. She hangs around in various video shops and interviews several people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Tomie (1998)
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 the two connected?
Why it matches: Same series: Tomie · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSuicide Dolls (1999)
A woman shoots herself. A woman hangs herself. A woman commits harakiri. Were they the victims of "Suicide Dolls", or were they themselves the dolls?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Sensual Ward: Wet Red Lips (2005)
The Slit-Mouthed Woman is a striking example of Pink Cinema that mixes horror with eroticism in a way that is both unsettling and genuinely original. A young couple enter a hospital after rumours that a demonic spirit known as the slit mouthed woman had been seen there. Once inside, they are possessed by an overwhelming desire to have sex and sneak off into an empty room to satiate their lusts. Then out of the darkness a perverse and disfigured woman appears and confronts them.The Slit-Mouthed Woman, a.k.a Kuchisake, is an original hybrid of pink erotica and horror from the controversial J-sploitation director Takuaki Hashiguchi whose previous films include the disturbingly nasty Woman Prisoner Torture. The Slit-Mouthed Woman features impressive special make-up effects from Takashi Oda, who worked alongside the acclaimed actor/director Beat Takeshi Kitano on his Yakuza action film Sonatine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Premonition (2004)
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the obituary section.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShikoku (1999)
Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayori, died several years ago and that Sayori's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has gone almost insane with grief. After seeing Sayori's ghost several times during the night, Hinako consults with some local experts on the paranormal and discovers that Sayori's mother has something planned for her daughter...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Chanting (2006)
A young college student moves to a new boarding house in a very haunted area.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Kakashi (2001)
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?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Loft (2006)
A writer retreats to a secluded suburban house to work on her new novel. But her attention is instead occupied by her archaeologist neighbor's newly discovered mummy and a ghostly presence in her house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBrutal (2017)
A savage murderer is on the prowl in Japan. One by one, his victims fall but what is he searching for? The same thing a murderess is looking for. We are all looking for that special love of our lives and sometimes, we're willing to kill everyone to find that special someone. This is the tale of two people finding each other in the most vicious way possible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Teke Teke 2 (2009)
The story of Teke Teke, the ghost woman with no legs, continues. Conflict arises between a group of high school classmates, and Teke Teke starts hunting them down one by one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Chasing World (2008)
A teenager is transported to a parallel world where everyone who shares his family name is being hunted down by the dictatorial government.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Tomie: Another Face (1999)
Tomie is a mysterious, beautiful girl you just can't get rid of. She will come to your life from nowhere, and whatever you do, kill her or love her, she will come back to you in the end.
Why it matches: Same series: Tomie · both horror
Reincarnation (2005)
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAvatar (2011)
Michiko lost her dad in a car accident when she was 10 years old. After the car accident, Michiko has lived with her mother Kyoko. Michiko, now in her 2nd year of high school, gets a cell phone from her mother as a birthday present. Michiko is so excited to have her very first cell phone. Soon afterwards, she is forced into joining social networking site "AvaQ" by classmate, and queen of the classroom, Taeko.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Shirome (2010)
In his latest film, Shirome, Stardust Promotion's relatively new pop idol unit Momoiro Clover star as a group of girls who enter an old abandoned school hoping to have their wishes granted by a spirit called Shirome. The girls initially had no clue they were being filmed for a movie at all. Instead, they were told that they were being filmed for an upcoming television show exploring haunted locations. The result is a faux documentary style in the same vein as "The Blair Witch Project" and "Paranormal Activity".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)
On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put up for sale, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTomie: Rebirth (2001)
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of the body. To cheer him up, the boys take the unwitting murderer to the nearest bar for a party... but a mysterious girl named Tomie shows up, bearing a few odd physical resemblances to the dead girl in the ground.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Asphyx (1972)
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNever After Dark (2026)
A traveling psychic who helps lost souls cross over encounters a powerful entity at a remote house. While investigating its origins, she uncovers dark secrets and faces a deadly threat from an unexpected source.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Boogeyman (2023)
Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it’s too late.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Tomie: Forbidden Fruit?
The closest matches to Tomie: Forbidden Fruit are Tomie: Replay (2000), Ju-rei: The Uncanny (2004) and Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Tomie: Forbidden Fruit?
People who watched Tomie: Forbidden Fruit most often go on to Ju-rei: The Uncanny (2004), Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014) and Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007).
What is the highest-rated movie like Tomie: Forbidden Fruit?
The Boogeyman (2023), rated 6.4/10 by 1,219 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Tomie: Forbidden Fruit?
Never After Dark (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Tomie: Forbidden Fruit part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Tomie, which includes Tomie: Replay (2000), Tomie: Unlimited (2011), Tomie (1998) and Tomie: Another Face (1999).
Are there Japanese movies like Tomie: Forbidden Fruit?
Yes: Tomie: Replay (2000), Ju-rei: The Uncanny (2004) and Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (2014).
How are movies similar to Tomie: Forbidden Fruit chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Tomie: Forbidden Fruit, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.