Kanayama Tomokichi is a character from the 1993 live-action film Tokyo Babylon 1999. He is a former member of the Sumeragi clan, having retired from the group ten years before the events of the story. After his retirement, he took up the role of a teacher, instructing a group of seven high school girls in the art of onmyou magic, a form of traditional Japanese esoteric cosmology and divination. The film’s plot identifies his students as being broken-hearted, and Kanayama’s instruction appears aimed at empowering them to take revenge on those who have wronged them, specifically beginning with a cunning or abusive teacher and a group of delinquent boys.

Kanayama’s role in the narrative is that of a catalyst. His assassination by Seishirou of the rival Sakurazukamori sect is the inciting incident that sets the plot in motion. After his death, the seven girls retrieve his textbook of onmyou magic from his house and proceed to use its teachings to cast curses on their targets. His death also creates a critical misunderstanding, as the girls believe the protagonist, Subaru Sumeragi, is responsible for killing their teacher, leading them to target Subaru with their magical attacks.

Information regarding his personal background, detailed personality traits, internal motivations for teaching the girls, and any significant character development throughout the film is not specified in the search results. His key relationship is with his seven students, whom he taught, and his death serves as the primary connection to the main antagonist, Seishirou, who is his killer. Regarding notable abilities, Kanayama Tomokichi is shown to be a practitioner and teacher of onmyou magic, possessing a textbook on the subject that is powerful enough to allow his relatively unskilled students to perform curses.