# Dark Water (2002)

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**Original title**: *仄暗い水の底から*
**Runtime**: 101 min
**Genres**: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
**Directed by**: Hideo Nakata
**Written by**: Takashige Ichise, Hideo Nakata, Yoshihiro Nakamura
**Starring**: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yuu Tokui

> *Don't let the water reach you.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Ginza summer, humidity sticking to necks. A single mother drags a child up seven floors of a peeling tower where every faucet whispers.

New taps installed, old stains spreading across the ceiling like ink.

Nakata’s J-horror swells the domestic into the spectral.

**Mood tags**: dread, slow-burn

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