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Dark Water (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 10
Rotten:4
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] terror and disturbing situations
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Japanese director Hideo Nakata adapts another story by RING novelist Koji Suzuki for a supremely creepy tale of atmospheric horror. Yoshimi (Hitomi Kuroki) is a soon-to-be single mother going through a rather nasty divorce and... Japanese director Hideo Nakata adapts another story by RING novelist Koji Suzuki for a supremely creepy tale of atmospheric horror. Yoshimi (Hitomi Kuroki) is a soon-to-be single mother going through a rather nasty divorce and struggling for custody of her adorable five-year-old daughter, Ikuko (Rio Kanno). Forced to find a new job and home, Yoshimi settles for a drab concrete highrise with long, unpopulated corridors and damp, shadowy interiors that include a patch of murky water dripping through the ceiling from the apartment above. As the building's mildewy recesses take their psychological toll on Yoshimi, Ikuko keeps stumbling upon a small, red, child's handbag that belonged to a little girl named Mitsuko (Mirei Oguchi), who lived in the upstairs apartment and disappeared under mysterious circumstances--and who seems to be exerting her ghastly influence over the mother-daughter pair in increasingly menacing ways. Sustaining an aura of dread that would make Roman Polanski proud, DARK WATER mines metaphor-rich water images of gurgling bathtubs and ominous rooftop water towers for a thrilling horror odyssey that also works as a social commentary on the dynamics of motherhood, madness, and the modern nuclear family (ala THE SHINING or ROSEMARY'S BABY). Like THE RING, Nakata's superlative slice of J-horror was given the Hollywood treatment with a 2005 remake starring Jennifer Connelly. [More]
Starring: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa
Starring: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yu Tokui
Director: Hideo Nakata
Director: Hideo Nakata
Producer: Takashige Ichise
Composer: Kenji Kawai
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Release:
Jun 28, 2005
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- NTSC
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 16:9
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - Japanese, English
Additional Release Material:
- Trailers - 1. ADV Previews
- 2. Original Japanese Trailer
Additional Product:
- Inserts - DARK WATER Manga Advertisment, Track Listings
Tracks:
- 1. Opening Credits
- 2. Left Behind
- 3. Mediation Hearing
- 4. Apartment 305
- 5. Moving In
- 6. First Day of School
- 7. No Answers
- 8. Job Interview
- 9. Friends & Family
- 10. Hide & Seek
- 11. Mediation Hearing II
- 12. Ikuko Disappears
- 13. The Apartment Upstairs
- 14. Words of Advice
- 15. Mistuko Kawai
- 16. 10 Years Later
- 17. Closing Credits
Reviews for Dark Water
Benefits from having an undercurrent of sadness, which makes it feel quite similar to the ghost stories in Kwaidan.
He [Nakata] wants us to absorb, to feel a location, and to understand the plight of the characters before he goes any further.
So much of Dark Water is contrived that it defies the mind to try to make sense of it.
Um terror bem construído que não quer apenas provocar sustos passageiros, mas sim estabelecer um clima de tensão constante e personagens com os quais realmente nos importemos.
With extremely heavy echoes of his own 1998 film Ringu, Nakata is on subtle creep-out form here rather than big horror movie mode.
A horror movie that sits there and drags and seems very full of itself, and is based on the premise that puddles are scary. They're not.
The picture is melancholy remembrance and its sources of fear are intimate and brilliant.
...while Dark Water isn't a complete wash (no pun intended), watched side-by-side with Ringu, it ultimately comes off as a pale successor.
Latest News for Dark Water
October 18, 2005:
Next Asia-to-America Horror Remakes? Two Separate "Eye"s
For those who just can't get enough of American remakes like "The Ring," "The Grudge," and "Dark Water," get ready to celebrate. Paramount's got a... More...
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