Dark Water

is a 2002 Japanese supernatural horror drama film directed by Hideo Nakata and written by Yoshihiro Nakamura and Kenichi Suzuki, based on the short story collection by Koji Suzuki. The film 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-produced remake of the film, directed by Walter Salles and starring Jennifer Connelly and Tim Roth, was released in 2005. Plot Amidst a divorce, Yoshimi Matsubara struggles to rebuild her life. She rents a run-down apartment, enrolls her daughter Ikuko in a nearby kindergarten, and gets a job as a proofreader in a small publishing company. The ceiling of their apartment has a leak that continually worsens. Matsubara complains to the building superintendent to no avail. Yoshimi begins experiencing strange occurrences around the complex. A red bag reappears no matter how often she tries to dispose of it; she gets glimpses of a mysterious long-haired little girl. Several incidents remind her of the time she was abandoned as a child. She is regularly late to pick up Ikuko from school and is stressed when her ex-husband tries to take Ikuko. Yoshimi learns of Mitsuko Kawai, who went missing a year earlier, from a missing person photo of her with a yellow raincoat and red bag. The little girl used to live in the abandoned unit right above Yuoshimi's.