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After terrifying audiences worldwide with the blockbuster J-horror classic Ring and its sequel, director Hideo Nakata returned to the genre for Dark Water, another highly atmospheric, and critically acclaimed, tale of the supernatural which took the common theme of the "dead wet girl" to new heights of suspense and drama. 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. Beautifully shot by the same cinematographer as Ring and Pulse, and featuring an especially unnerving sound design, Dark Water successfully merges spine-tingling tension with a family's heart-wrenching emotional struggle, creating one of the very finest and most unsettling contemporary Japanese horror films.
Original Release
01/19/2002
US Release
10/25/2016
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hitomi Kuroki | Yoshimi Matsubara |
Rio Kanno | Ikuko Matsubara (6 years old) / Young Ikuko Matsubara |
Mirei Oguchi | Mitsuko Kawai |
Asami Mizukawa | Ikuko Hamada (16 years old) / Ikuko Hamada |
Fumiyo Kohinata | Kunio Hamada |
Yu Tokui | Ohta (real-estate agent) / Ota |
Isao Yatsu | Kamiya (apartment manager) / Kamiya |
Shigemitsu Ogi | Kishida (Yoshimi's lawyer) / Kishida |
Maiko Asano | Young Yoshimi's Teacher |
Yukiko Ikari | Young Yoshimi |
Directors
Writers
Hideo Nakata, Kôji Suzuki, Takashige Ichise, Ken'ichi Suzuki, Yoshihiro Nakamura
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hitomi Kuroki | Yoshimi Matsubara |
Rio Kanno | Ikuko Matsubara (6 years old) / Young Ikuko Matsubara |
Mirei Oguchi | Mitsuko Kawai |
Asami Mizukawa | Ikuko Hamada (16 years old) / Ikuko Hamada |
Fumiyo Kohinata | Kunio Hamada |
Yu Tokui | Ohta (real-estate agent) / Ota |
Isao Yatsu | Kamiya (apartment manager) / Kamiya |
Shigemitsu Ogi | Kishida (Yoshimi's lawyer) / Kishida |
Maiko Asano | Young Yoshimi's Teacher |
Yukiko Ikari | Young Yoshimi |
Shinji Nomura | Mediator |
Kiriko Shimizu | Mediator |
Teruko Hanahara | Old Lady (twin, elder) / Old Lady |
Youko Yasuda | Old Lady (twin, younger) / Old Lady |
Shichirou Gou | Nishioka |
Chisako Hara | Kayo |
Tôru Shinagawa | Principal / Kindergarten Principal |
Shelley Calene-Black | Yoshimi Matsubara |
Gabi Chennisi Duncombe | Ikuko Matsubara |
Jay Hickman | Kishida |
Producers
Name | Role |
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John Ledford | Executive Producer |
Mark Williams | Executive Producer |
Kyle Jones | Producer |
Takashige Ichise | Producer |