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Dark Water

Japanese Cinema • Horror, Thriller, UR, 19-Jan-2002

Based upon on a short story by Ring author Koji Suzuki, Dark Water follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a dilapidated and long-forgotten apartment complex, Yoshimi begins to experience startling visions and unexplainable sounds, calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not only her custody of Ikuko, but perhaps their lives as well.

Tags
Flats, Family, Single mothers, Ghosts
Cast
Hitomi Kuroki Yoshimi Matsubara
Rio Kanno Ikuko aged 6
Mirei Oguchi Mitsuko Kawai
Crew
Hideo Nakata director

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