Dark Water & Evangelion

SBS has been kind enough to give us several hours of Japanese TV tonight (Monday 12 Jan 2009). From 11:25pm, it’s the horrific Dark Water (仄暗い水の底から)).

From the director of The Ring movies, Hideo Nakata, this film follows a single mother who moves into an apartment building that is haunted by a girl’s ghost. Yoshimi Matsubara is going through a messy divorce over the custody of her five-year-old daughter Ikuko and her husband insists that she is mentally unstable. Yoshimi is determined to start a new life with her daughter and moves to a new apartment.

But this dark and musty apartment building holds unimagined horrors. Water drips from the ceiling, and as the volume increases, Yoshimi investigates by going to the apartment above. While it is empty, when the door is ajar she glimpses a little girl in a yellow plastic raincoat. It turns out that this child died two years previously. The little girl re-appears, with devastating consequences.

Dark Water is subtitled in English. Here’s some interesting info from Wikipedia:

A U.S. remake of the film, directed by Walter Salles and starring Jennifer Connelly, was released on July 8, 2005.
A possible Indian remake of the film has been announced, starring Kareena Kapoor.

From 1am, more Evangelion.