Dark Water (2002 film)
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| Directed by | Hideo Nakata | 
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| Produced by | Takashige Ichise | 
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| Cinematography | Junichiro Hayashi | 
| Edited by | Katsumi Nakazawa | 
| Music by | Kenji Kawai | 
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| Distributed by | Toho | 
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Running time  | 101 minutes | 
| Country | Japan | 
| Box office | $1.4 million | 
Dark Water (Japanese: 仄暗い水の底から, Hepburn: Honogurai mizu no soko kara; lit. "From the Depths of Dark Water") is a 2002 Japanese supernatural horror film directed by Hideo Nakata and written by Yoshihiro Nakamura and Kenichi Suzuki, based on the short story collection by Koji Suzuki. It stars Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yu Tokui, Isao Yatsu and Shigemitsu Ogi.
The plot follows a divorced mother who moves into a rundown apartment with her daughter, and experiences supernatural occurrences including a mysterious water leak from the floor above. An American remake, directed by Walter Salles and starring Jennifer Connelly and Tim Roth, was released in 2005.