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After terrifying audiences worldwide with the blockbuster J-horror classic Ringu and its sequel, director Hideo Nakata returned to the genre for Dark Water, another highly atmospheric, and critically acclaimed, tale of the supernatural which took the common theme of the "dead wet girl" to new heights of suspense and drama.
Based upon on a short story by Ring author Koji Suzuki, 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.
Beautifully shot by the same cinematographer as Ringu and Pulse, and featuring an especially unnerving sound design, Dark Water successfully merges spine-tingling tension with a family's heart-wrenching emotional struggle, creating one of the very finest and most unsettling contemporary Japanese horror films.
Special Features
- High Definition digital transfer
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
- Original 5.1 audio (DTS-HD on the Blu-ray)
- Brand new interview with director Hideo Nakata
- Brand new interview with novelist Koji Suzuki
- Brand new interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi
- Archive interview with actress Asami Mizukawa
- Original 'Making of' documentary
- Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain
- Arrow Video
- 101mins approx
- Hideo Nakata
- Hideo Nakata
- Rio Kanno
- Mirei Oguchi
- 2002
- 2
- A
- Arrow Video
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Arrow Video
After terrifying audiences worldwide with the blockbuster J-horror classic Ringu and its sequel, director Hideo Nakata returned to the genre for Dark Water, another highly atmospheric, and critically acclaimed, tale of the supernatural which took the common theme of the "dead wet girl" to new heights of suspense and drama.
Based upon on a short story by Ring author Koji Suzuki, 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.
Beautifully shot by the same cinematographer as Ringu and Pulse, and featuring an especially unnerving sound design, Dark Water successfully merges spine-tingling tension with a family's heart-wrenching emotional struggle, creating one of the very finest and most unsettling contemporary Japanese horror films.
Special Features
- High Definition digital transfer
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
- Original 5.1 audio (DTS-HD on the Blu-ray)
- Brand new interview with director Hideo Nakata
- Brand new interview with novelist Koji Suzuki
- Brand new interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi
- Archive interview with actress Asami Mizukawa
- Original 'Making of' documentary
- Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain
- Arrow Video
- 101mins approx
- Hideo Nakata
- Hideo Nakata
- Rio Kanno
- Mirei Oguchi
- 2002
- 2
- A
- Arrow Video
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Almost splendid presentation of a marvelous film.
The Arrow Video Blu-ray presentation of Dark Water is filled with extravagant extra featurettes and a standard definition DVD disc. The overall transfer is pretty mediocre, which is a shame because Dark Water is a marvel in moody cinematography and the picture quality definitely dilutes the experience and the worth of this release. Fortunately, the extra featurettes are definitely intriguing and they really helped solidify the enjoyability of this Blu-ray release. There's plenty of information behind the film's production and history featured in the bonus contents that are shared on both discs. Pretty solid release with gorgeous new artwork (per usual) that has received so-so reception over the past years.
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