Japan Synopsis
仄暗い水の底から
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Audience Engagement
527 audience reviews — more than 94% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (94th percentile) outruns trending popularity (70th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Dark Water. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Horror + Thriller in Japan
90 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Horror and Thriller genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Dark Water itself).
The 2001–2003 Japan Window
Dark Water holds position #121 of 247 Japan films in the 2001–2003 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Dark Water premiered alongside 81 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 41m runtime, production spent $40K per minute on screen and earned $17K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 81 other Japan films in 2002.
The 1400th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Dark Water, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- child custody · 1
- new apartment · 1
- nightmare · 9
- based on novel or book · 288
- ghost · 84
- family · 74
- parent child relationship · 46
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,481 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (46th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Horror productions specifically: #64 of 391 (top 16%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Office Augusta Co. Ltd., Nikkatsu Corporation, Oz Company, Kadokawa Shoten, Nippon Television Network Corporation |
| Runtime | 1h 41m |
| Release Date | January 19, 2002 |
| IMDb | tt0308379 |