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Dark Water (live-action movie 2002)

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Alternative title:
Aguas Oscuras (Spanish)
Honogurai Mizu no Soko Kara (Japanese)
仄暗い水の底から (Japanese)
검은 물 밑에서 (Korean)
Genres: drama, horror
Objectionable content: Significant
Running time: 101 minutes
Vintage:
2002-01-19
2018-10-05 (Canal CinemaPlus - Colombia)
Premiere date:
2002-01-19 (Japan)
2002-02-07 (Germany - Berlin International Film Festival)
2002-03-21 (Belgium - Brussels Int'l. Film Fest. of Fantasy Films)
2002-06-06 (Singapore)
2002-06-08 (Australia - Sydney Film Festival)
2002-06-27 (Russia - Moscow Film Festival)
2002-08-17 (UK - Edinburgh Film Festival)
2002-09-19 (Malaysia)
2002-10-08 (Spain - Sitges Film Festival)
2002-10-10 (Poland - Warsaw Film Festival)
2002-10-27 (UK - Raindance Film Festival)
2002-11-04 (Spain - Semana de Cine Fantástico y de Terror)
2002-11-09 (Sweden - Uppsala Horror Film Festival)
2002-11-09 (USA - AFI Film Festival)
2002-11-16 (Sweden - Stockholm International Film Festival)
2003-02-14 (Spain)
2003-02-21 (South Korea)
2003-02-26 (France)
2003-04-06 (USA - Philadelphia International Film Festival)
2003-04-13 (Netherlands - Fantastic Film Festival)
2003-04-23 (Belgium)
2003-05-15 (Russia)
2003-06-06 (UK)
2003-07-11 (Finland)
2003-07-23 (Denmark - J-Horror Cavalcade)
2003-07-30 (Philippines - Manila)
2003-08-13 (Germany - Hamburg Fantasy Filmfest)
2003-08-20 (Philippines - Davao)
2003-09-19 (South Korea - Megabox Japan Film Festival)
2003-10-10 (Denmark)
2003-11-21 (Poland)
2003-12-05 (Turkey)
2004-03-05 (Romania)
2005-06-05 (USA)
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Blu-ray + DVD combo
    Dark Water (BD+DVD) 2016-10-25 (from $21.01)
DVD (Region 1)
    Dark Water (DVD) 2005-06-21 (from $7.40)
    Dark Water / Princess Blade [Double Pack] (DVD) 2007-09-11 (from $15.98)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hideo Nakata
Screenplay: Taka Ichise
Music:
Kenji Kawai
Shikao Suga
Original Novel: Kōji Suzuki
Director of Photography: Junichiro Hayashi
Producer: Taka Ichise

Editing: Nobuyuki Takahashi
Production Design: Katsumi Nakazawa
Hitomi Kuroki as Yoshimi Matsubara
Rio Kanno as Ikuko Matsubara

Asami Mizukawa as Ikuko Hamada
Fumiyo Kohinata as Kunio Hamada
Mirei Oguchi as Mitsuko Kawai

Isao Yatsu as Kamiya
Mitsutaka Horikoshi as Kobayashi
Shigemitsu Ogi as Kishida
Toru Shinagawa as Principal
Yu Tokui as Ohta

Chihiro Otsuka
Japanese companies
Production:
Honogurai Mizu no Soko Kara Production Committee
Kadokawa Shoten
Nippon Television Network
Office Augusta
Oz Co., Ltd.
VAP
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Kyle Jones
Translation: Richard Kim
ADR Script: Kyle Jones
Executive producer:
John Ledford
Mark Williams
Producer: Kyle Jones

Creative Director:
David Del Rio
J. Michael Stovall
DVD Authoring: Thomas Meerbott
DVD Coordination: Janice Williams
DVD Menu Design:
David Wang
Patrick Givens
Editing:
Neil O'Sullivan
Patrick Givens
International Coordination: Toru Iwakami
Mixing: Cesar Inserny
Packaging Design: David Wang
Post-Production Manager: Shelly Thomas
Production Assistant:
Carole Pavlik
Maki Nagano
Marta Bechtol
Miyuki Kamiya
Paul Mericle
Sara Muir
Recording engineer: Jacob A. Gragard
Senior Translator: Shoko Oono
Subtitling: Dwayne Jones
Gabi Chennisi as Ikuko Matsubara
Shelley Calene-Black as Yoshimi Matsubara

Andy McAvin as Kunio Hamada
Chris Ayres as Principal
Jay Hickman as Kishida
Mark X Laskowski as Ohta
Mia as Mitsuko Kawai
Quentin Haag as Masato Nishioka

Amanda Nanawa as
Future Teacher
Mother with Fireworks
April Brem as Teenage Girl 2
Christine Auten as
Ai's Mother
Messaging Service Voice
Yoshimi's Teacher
Cynthia Martinez as Front-Hiding Girl
Emma Crabb as
Drink Server
Potential Buyer
Heather Bryson LeMaster as Female Mediator
Hilary Haag as Seeking Girl
Jessica Boone as Teenage Ikuko
John Swasey as Male Mediator
K.C. Jones as Father with Fireworks
Kaytha Coker as Ms. Tsushima
Lidia Porto as
Kishida's Secretary
Old Woman 2
Luci Christian as
Answering Machine Voice
Teenage Girl 1
Woman Giving Directions
Mariela Ortiz as Ikuko's Teacher
Mia as
Ai
Back-Hiding Girl
Yoshimi (Young)
Rebecca Ayres as
Boy with Fireworks
Kobayashi
Ted Pfister as Kamiya
Vic Mignogna as Kono
Vicki Barosh as
Auntie Kayo
Old Woman 1

April Brem
Cynthia Martinez
Hilary Haag
Jacob A. Gragard
K.C. Jones
Lidia Porto
Matt Crawford
Rebecca Ayres
English companies
ADR Production: Industrial Smoke & Mirrors
DVD Authoring & Encoding: M.O.F.C.
Internet Streaming:
The Anime Network
Tubi TV
Licensed by:
ADV Films (Expired)
Arrow Video (2016)
Madman Entertainment (Australia)
Post Production: Monkey Boy Studios
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director: David Corsellas (Catalan dub)
Isabel Valls as Ikuko Matsubara (Catalan dub)
Joel Mulachs as Yoshimi Matsubara (Catalan dub)

Alfonso Vallés as Kishida (Spain dub)
Claudi García as Principal (Spain dub)
José Javier Serrano as Ohta (Spain dub)
José Luis Mediavilla as Ohta (Catalan dub)
Marc Zanni as Kishida (Catalan dub)
Núria Trifol as Ikuko Hamada (Spain dub)
Pep Ribas as Kunio Hamada (Catalan dub)

Félix Benito as Kamiya (Spain dub)
Ferran Llavina as Kamiya (Catalan dub)
Meritxell Ané as Ikuko Matsubara (Catalan dub; child)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster:
Canal CinemaPlus (Latin America)
Cinema + (Colombia)
Distributor:
Babilla Ciné (Colombia | Theatrical; DVD and Blu-ray)
Dubbing Studio: 103 Todd-Ao Estudios (Catalan dub)
DVD Distribution: Babilla Ciné (Colombia)
Theatrical Distribution: Babilla Ciné (Colombia)
Theatrical Releaser: Babilla Ciné (Colombia)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Claudio Beccari

Dialogues: Silvia Bacinelli
Dubbing Assistant: Eric Alexander
Mixing: Pino Castellet
Elda Olivieri as Yoshimi Matsubara

Gianluca Iacono as Kishida

Marcella Silvestri as Ikuko Matsubara (6 years old)
Italian companies
Dubbing Studio: A.D.C. Group
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Distributor: Kino Świat
Polish cast
(none)
Swedish staff
Swedish companies
(none)
Distributor: Scanbox
Swedish cast
(none)

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