Dark Water Movie Review

Starring: Hitomi Kuroki, Asami Mizukawa, Rio Kanno

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Review Summaries

"DARK WATER (Honogurai mizu no soko kara) is a film directed by Hideo Nakata (Ring & Ring 2) in 2001. Yoshimi is trying to keep the custody of Ikuko, her six years old child. She moves with her into an old building. Soon water starts to drip from the ceiling into the sleeping room. As nobody seems to live in the flat above, Yoshimi begins to lose her nerves. A few days later, Yoshimi will learn that, two years before, a child leaving in the above apartment disappeared. She then starts to suffer from hallucinations involving the missing child. While a sympathetic lawyer accepts to help her with divorce procedures, Yoshimi remarks that her daughter seems to play with an invisible child. "
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Plot

Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 70%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - fantasy story on present day Earth
Horror film? Yes
Kind of Horror Story - why do we stay in the haunted house?
Family Relations Yes

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes - emotionally unstable
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (woman) medium/shoulderlng, straight
Body type - skinny (woman)
Events of movie makes character more... - sad
Ethnicity/Nationality - Japanese
How sensitive is this character? - soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type - average (female)
How much in movie? - 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality - Japanese

Main Adversary
Identity: - ghost
Age: - a kid
Eccentric: Yes - obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 40%
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (woman) long straight
Ethnicity - Japanese

Setting
Earth setting: - 20th century (1970's to Present)
Takes place on Earth? Yes
Water? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Tone of movie - fearful
Non-American film? Yes
What language? - Japanese
Subtitles? - Yes
Any profanity? - None
Is this movie based on a - book

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