Dark Water
Dark Water 2002
(Honogurai mizu no Soko kara)
Director: Hideo Nakata
Interpreters: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Asami Mizokawa, Fumiya Kojinata
The Western public is now starting to take an interest in the cinema of fantasy and horror East, especially in the wake of the U.S. adaptation of The Ring (Ringu), but the fact is that in countries like Japan, Korea and China (especially Hong Kong) gender has for many years giving excellent results.
The director of the original Ringu, Hideo Nakata of Japan now comes Dark Water, a disturbing psychological thriller that debugs enough imperfections of their earlier films to give us a film of astonishing quality and freshness.
Hitomi Kuroki gives life to Yoshimi, a young and fragile woman wrapped in a difficult process of separation from her husband, with the custody of his daughter Ikiku of 5 years in the game, tries to stay afloat, trying to get jobs and housing in an environment Urban absolutely hostile.
Bound by their economic conditions Yoshimi rented an apartment in a dilapidated building and Tetric the suburbs of Tokyo, is where strange things begin to happen in the ceilings of the rooms there some strange patches of moisture that change of shape.
Ikiku begins to explore the building, all rooms are vacant and there is an atmosphere Tetric, Yoshimi, concerned goes in search of her daughter, when found Ikiku has in his hand a red bag that said they had found on the roof, is Yoshimi rid of it, but that bag did not cease to appear throughout the film.
When they return to the apartment, the stain of water has become bigger and more disturbing ...
Dark Water manages to create scenes really disturbing, where ghostly atmosphere to create the tension becomes unbearable, starting with a not too original or too attractive to create an enviable quality of a Thriller, driving with great ease all the classic elements of the genre but giving to film a distinctive character that achieves surprising and frightening in more than one occasion the spectator.
The characters here are much more solid and it worked for example in Ringu or Chaos, his previous films, Hitomi Kuroki makes a fantastic, convey such terrible fragility of Yoshimi, and the small Ikiku this very convincing in his role.
The choice of venues and the creation of environments is also superb, the hotel will spend much of the film is really distressing, Nakata plays with a lot of pictures Tetric hallways with many doors on the sides of which we do not know that may occur; the Rain is also quite an element that gives the film great atmosphere.
Anyway, a great movie recommended not only for lovers of the horror genre, but for anyone willing to take some good scares with a film different from what we usually get from the U.S.
