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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.Product Identifiers
UPC0702727090127
eBay Product ID (ePID)46552944
Product Key Features
ActorRio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Hitomi Kuroki
RatingPG-13
Movie/TV TitleDark Water
DirectorHideo Nakata
FormatDVD
Release Year2005
GenreForeign Language
Sub-GenreJapanese
Additional Product Features
Region CodeRegion 1
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureJapan
Signal StandardDvd
Leading RoleRIO Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Hitomi Kuroki
Release Date20050628