Dark Water (2002 film)
Dark Water Japanese Honogurai Mizu no soko kara lit. From the bottom of Dark Water is a 2002 Japanese horror drama film directed by Hideo Nakata, the director of Ring and Ring 2. Dark Water is based on Floating Water, a short story by Koji Suzuki. The plot follows a divorced mother who moves into a rundown apartment with her daughter, only to experience supernatural occurrences and a mysterious water leak from the floor above which is eventually traced back to the former tenants. Released in Japan in January 2002, the film went on to premiere at festivals in Europe and the United States.
Yoshimi Matsubara Matsubara Yoshimi Hitomi Kuroki, in the midst of a divorce, moves to a rundown apartment with her daughter, Ikuko Matsubara Ikuko Rio Kanno. She enrolls her daughter in a nearby kindergarten and in order to win custody of her daughter, starts working as a proofreader, a job she held years ago before she was married. The ceiling of the apartment has a leak, which worsens on a daily basis. Matsubara complains to the janitor of the apartment, an old man, but the janitor does nothing to fix the leak. She then tries to go to the floor just above her apartment to find out the root of the leak, and discovers that the apartment is locked.Strange events then happen repeatedly a red bag with a bunny on the front reappears no matter how often Yoshimi tries to dispose of it. Hair is found in tap water. Yoshimi gets glimpses of a mysterious longhaired girl who is of similar age to her daughter. Yoshimi discovers that the upstairs apartment, the source of the leak, was formerly the home of a girl named Mitsuko Kawai Kawai Mitsuko Mirei Oguchi, who was of similar age to her daughter. She had attended the same kindergarten Ikuko now attends. Mitsuko was abandoned by her mother and vanished more than a year ago. ........
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