Dark Water

In Dark Water, a haunting horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, Yoshimi Matsubara, a woman going through a difficult divorce, struggles to rebuild her life while being haunted by a mysterious leak in her new apartment's ceiling that continually worsens. As she tries to solve the mystery, strange occurrences around her building remind her of her own traumatic past. She soon discovers that her daughter Ikuko is being haunted by the ghost of a young girl named Mitsuko Kawai who went missing a year earlier. Understanding that Mitsuko's spirit is attempting to communicate with them, Yoshimi sacrifices herself to appease the ghost and save her daughter as the building's water tank becomes a symbol of the characters' emotional urgency. The film explores themes of grief and neglected emotions within a family, emphasizing significant issues in Japanese society such as child-custody battles and women's vulnerability outside traditional family structures. It is a suspenseful and critically acclaimed tale of the supernatural.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Dark Water include The Invasion, The Devil's Advocate, House of Wax, Inland Empire, Next Door, The Dark.