Honogurai mizu no soko kara
Directed by:
Hideo NakataCinematography:
Jun'ichirô HayashiComposer:
Kenji KawaiCast:
Shoko Egami, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Chihiro Ōtsuka, Jessica Boone, 志水季里子, Toru Shinagawa, Yu Tokui, Shigemitsu Ogi, 原知佐子, 浅野麻衣子VOD (1)
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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. (Arrow Films)
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Years ago, after a very interesting lecture, I thought to myself that I should watch more Japanese horror films. It's an interesting genre, but I didn't see more than ten films and I think that's enough for me. It’s not that I'm avoiding these films, but I simply don’t enjoy them. Although, in this case, it did have a really interesting point... Mother's victim.
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Dark Water demonstrates that Japanese horror movies do not have to be terrifying in the sense of just ghosts and jump scares. It shows that Japanese horror movies can have a great atmosphere that greatly impacts the viewer. The American remake, for example, did not do this so well. Even the way they work with the water is very good in this version. In addition, even if you do not leave the screening of the movie terrified, you will leave it having been moved.
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