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Dark Water is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Hideo Nakata released in USA on 9 november 2002 with Hitomi Kuroki
Dark Water (2002)
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Add to a movie listDark Water (Japanese: 仄暗い水の底から Honogurai Mizu no soko kara lit. From the bottom of Dark Water) is a 2002 Japanese horror drama film directed by Hideo Nakata, the director of Ring and Ring 2. Dark Water is based on Floating Water, a short story by Koji Suzuki. The plot follows a divorced mother who moves into a rundown apartment with her daughter, only to experience supernatural occurrences and a mysterious water leak from the floor above which is eventually traced back to the former tenants. Released in Japan in January 2002, the film went on to premiere at festivals in Europe and the United States.
The film was remade in 2005 under the same title, directed by Walter Salles and starring Jennifer Connelly.
Synopsis
Yoshimi Matsubara (松原 淑美 Matsubara Yoshimi; Hitomi Kuroki), in the midst of a divorce, moves to a run-down apartment with her daughter, Ikuko (松原 郁子 Matsubara Ikuko; Rio Kanno). She enrolls her daughter in a nearby kindergarten and in order to win custody of her daughter, starts working as a proofreader, a job she held years ago before she was married. The ceiling of the apartment has a leak, which worsens on a daily basis. Matsubara complains to the janitor of the apartment, an old man, but the janitor does nothing to fix the leak. She then tries to go to the floor just above her apartment to find out the root of the leak, and discovers that the apartment is locked.Actors
Hitomi Kuroki
(Yoshimi Matsubara)
Asami Mizukawa
(Ikuko Hamada)
Fumiyo Kohinata
(Kunio Hamada)
Yu Tokui
Tarō Suwa
(Boss of Yoshimi Matsubara)
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