Dark Water
2002 · Movie · 101 min · ★ 6.8 · 76% critics
Amid a tense divorce and custody fight, a mother moves into a rundown apartment building with her young daughter to start over. As a dark leak spreads across their ceiling and strange signs appear around the building, everyday stress turns into mounting dread and a lingering mystery they can’t ignore.
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Also known as From the Depths of Dark Water
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Details
- Original title
- 仄暗い水の底から
- Years
- 2002
- Release date
- 2002-01-19
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Critic score
- 76/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (707 votes)
About
If you like slow-burn, rain-soaked ghost stories that mix family stress with creeping unease, this may work for you, especially if you enjoyed The Ring; Not for you if you want fast pacing, big scares, or gore.
Pros: eerie, murky atmosphere; steady sense of dread; strong mother-child focus | Cons: very slow first hour; thin side characters; story feels repetitive
Themes
- based on novel or book
- nightmare
- parent child relationship
- family
- occult
- ghost
- child custody
- new apartment
- heisei
- j-horror
- jhorror
Cast & crew
Hitomi Kuroki
as Yoshimi Matsubara
Rio Kanno
as Young Ikuko Matsubara
- MO
Mirei Oguchi
as Mitsuko Kawai
Asami Mizukawa
as Ikuko Hamada
Fumiyo Kohinata
as Kunio Hamada
Yuu Tokui
as Ota
Isao Yatsu
as Kamiya
Shigemitsu Ogi
as Kishida
- MA
Maiko Asano
as Young Yoshimi's Teacher
- YI
Yukiko Ikari
as Young Yoshimi
Directed by Hideo Nakata