Hideo Nakata, having directed both this one and The Ring, established himself as the most commercially successful filmmaker of J-Horror. “Dark Water” won awards in festivals all over the world, including the Jury’s Choice Award at the 2009 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival. An American remake with the same name was released in 2005. The book and its manga adaptation were also published in English in the Us.
Someone lingered
Yoshimi is a divorced mother who is seeking sole custody of her little daughter, Ikuko. While searching for an apartment, she chooses a run-down and cheap one. She enrolls Ikuko in a nearby kindergarten and she gets a job as a proofreader. Eventually, she realizes that the flat hides much more than the moisture in the walls. The family who lived upstairs also had a small daughter who disappeared mysteriously a year earlier. The couple moved, but a little girl with...
Someone lingered
Yoshimi is a divorced mother who is seeking sole custody of her little daughter, Ikuko. While searching for an apartment, she chooses a run-down and cheap one. She enrolls Ikuko in a nearby kindergarten and she gets a job as a proofreader. Eventually, she realizes that the flat hides much more than the moisture in the walls. The family who lived upstairs also had a small daughter who disappeared mysteriously a year earlier. The couple moved, but a little girl with...
- 11/9/2016
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Warner Bros. Pictures Japan is producing and will distribute a film based on the novel Catch a Wave, written by Kazuma Toyota at the age of 16. Toyota, now a 17-year-old high school junior, will adapt his novel for the screen. Catch a Wave is the first Japanese feature film produced by the local-language production unit of Warners Japan, which will distribute the movie nationwide early next summer. Nobuyuki Takahashi, who directed the TV drama series Water Boys, is making his debut as a film director with the project.
- 10/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Warner Bros. Pictures Japan is producing and will distribute a film based on the novel Catch a Wave, written by Kazuma Toyota at the age of 16. Toyota, now a 17-year-old high school junior, will adapt his novel for the screen. Catch a Wave is the first Japanese feature film produced by the local-language production unit of Warners Japan, which will distribute the movie nationwide early next summer. Nobuyuki Takahashi, who directed the TV drama series Water Boys, is making his debut as a film director with the project.
- 10/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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