“Don't let the water reach you.”
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Hitomi Kuroki
Yoshimi Matsubara
Rio Kanno
Young Ikuko Matsubara
Mirei Oguchi
Mitsuko Kawai
Asami Mizukawa
Ikuko Hamada
Fumiyo Kohinata
Kunio Hamada
Yuu Tokui
Ota
Isao Yatsu
Kamiya
Shigemitsu Ogi
Kishida
Maiko Asano
Young Yoshimi's Teacher
Yukiko Ikari
Young Yoshimi
Dark Water is a horror, mystery, thriller film released in 2002 exploring themes of based on novel or book, nightmare, parent child relationship, family, occult, ghost. Directed by Hideo Nakata, it stars Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi. A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
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