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Dark Water

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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

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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

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Full Review Source: Fantastica Daily | comment Comment
07/09/05
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily
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About as frightening as a soggy diaper.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment Comment
07/08/05
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness
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Benefits from having an undercurrent of sadness, which makes it feel quite similar to the ghost stories in Kwaidan.

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07/07/05
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies
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He [Nakata] wants us to absorb, to feel a location, and to understand the plight of the characters before he goes any further.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
07/03/05
Rory L. Aronsky
Film Threat
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So much of Dark Water is contrived that it defies the mind to try to make sense of it.

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06/06/05
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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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.

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07/20/04
Pablo Villaca
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To date, the scariest movie I've ever seen.

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06/29/04
Luke Y. Thompson
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03/16/04
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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With extremely heavy echoes of his own 1998 film Ringu, Nakata is on subtle creep-out form here rather than big horror movie mode.

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02/23/04
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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12/21/03
Boxoffice Magazine
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12/12/03
Matthew Turner
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Masterpiece of tormented souls.

Full Review Source: Movie Gazette | comment Comment
11/07/03
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette
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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.

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07/16/03
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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07/08/03
Guardian [UK]
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The picture is melancholy remembrance and its sources of fear are intimate and brilliant.

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07/02/03
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
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05/24/03
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05/20/03
Jamie Russell
BBC
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...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.

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04/27/03
David Nusair
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