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Today I'll show you a supernatural horror film: "Dark Water"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie is centered around a newly-single mother, “Yoshimi”,
who is in a legal battle for custody of her young daughter
It begins in the legal office,
where Yoshimi and her ex-husband settle things for their daughter’s custody
The officers are interviewing Yoshimi,
and asking her about getting psychiatric treatment, as her ex-husband tries to use it against her
She explains that her previous work was to proofread novels,
where the content was highly sadistic and horrible
She worries that it might affect their decision;
but the officers reassure her that she has the advantage, since her child is under seven
Yoshimi then confronts her ex-husband about mentioning her past
After that, she looks for an apartment with her daughter despite the rainy day
As they reach the old apartment, they come across the agent, who guides them inside
The agent introduces them to the apartment manager, whose office is in the lobby
Then they ride an elevator; and Yoshimi feels uneasy about the leaks
Before they get to the floor, a little hand holds her
As the elevator opens, the daughter immediately runs
Yoshimi gets surprised, thinking that she is holding her daughter’s hand
but she just ignores it
As they leave the elevator, the manager who has been watching them from the CCTV,
gets stunned as he sees a glimpse of a young girl left in the elevator
Subsequently, Yoshimi checks the unit; and the daughter is excited to see her room
The agent notices the leak on the ceiling; so he distracts Yoshimi by introducing the kitchen
She notices that her daughter is gone,
causing her to panic and go downstairs to look for her daughter
As she looks at the monitor from the manager, she sees her daughter in the elevator
However, the manager cannot tell which floor it is; so she goes to the highest floor instead
Meanwhile, the daughter reaches the rooftop
She energetically looks around the area
Yoshimi arrives to fetch her;
and in return, she comes toward her, while wearing the red sling bag she just picked up
After that, they return the bag to the manager, who is confused since no kids live there
The manager then offers the daughter to have the toys inside the bag
but Yoshimi does not allow her daughter to take them
The next day, they move into an eerie apartment they visited yesterday
Afterward, as Yoshimi prepares for her daughter’s first day in her new school,
she feels bothered to see the water leaking from the ceiling
She wipes the water on the floor, and suddenly gets a headache
So she takes medicine; and a strand of hair in the glass of tap water grosses her out
As Ikuka is about to press the button in the elevator, she notices the ash stamped on it
So Yoshimi pushed it instead, and was disgusted by it
Meanwhile, Yoshimi reports to the manager about the leak on their ceiling
Disappointingly, the manager does not seem concerned, and instead tells her he will take note of it
Yoshimi then leaves to accompany her daughter to her new school
Later that day, while at home, Yoshimi continues to throw out the boxes they used,
and sees the red sling bag in the bin
Meanwhile, the leak is continuously dripping down the floor, which frustrates her
She goes upstairs to check the unit above them
She rings the doorbell; but no one’s responding
She gets in the elevator;
and to her surprise, the door is now open, with a young girl standing there
She immediately goes back to the unit; but no one answers again
After that, Yoshimi calls the agent to tell him her concern,
and doubts that it is because of the building’s old age or the unit above them
While Yoshimi is on call, her daughter curiously stares at the leakage on the ceiling
The following day, Yoshimi is at her job interview,
while the daughter waits for her in the kindergarten
Yoshimi is a little worried about her daughter; so she tries to contact the teacher
Just then, Yoshimi’s past flashes back to when she was in the same situation as her daughter;
and the teacher called her parents to pick her up from school
Back to reality, it is rainy; and the daughter sadly walks home alone
Along the way, she notices a young girl wearing a yellow raincoat across the street
Meanwhile, Yoshimi decides to finish the interview, and hurries to fetch her daughter
Unfortunately, the school is already closed; and a poster of a missing young girl, “Mitsuko,”
catches her attention, making her more worried
Yoshimi proceeds to look for her daughter,
when suddenly she sees her ex-husband walking with her daughter across the street
She then runs to them, and gets her daughter, who hesitantly goes with her
Along their way, they see a family playing with some sparklers
It makes Yoshimi feel bad for her daughter; so she tells her that they will get some on their way
As they reach the apartment, the daughter tells her mom that she is enough for her
Yoshimi feels touched, and responds that she can handle anything as long as they are together
They arrive in their apartment, and are welcomed by a piece of good news through the voicemail,
that Yoshimi got the job offer
So they celebrate and cheerfully go to the roof
Right then, Yoshimi sees a glimpse of a young girl in a raincoat passing by
As they open the door to the rooftop, they see the red sling bag lying on the floor
the daughter immediately runs towards it;
and Yoshimi feels apprehensive about it, as she just saw it in the bin previously
She forcefully gets it from her daughter, and throws it in the container
After that, they take a bath together
the daughter is the last to finish; and she speaks to herself as she plays in the water,
mentioning a playmate named “Mitsuko”
The next day, in the kindergarten, the daughter and the other students play hide and seek
While the daughter is hiding, she notices someone’s coming
A young girl in a yellow raincoat approaches and stands across her,
while water flows from where the girl stands
Afterward, Yoshimi worriedly arrives and hurries to check her daughter,
who is currently unwell in the clinic
Apparently, her daughter threw up and collapsed
Yoshimi doubts and accuses the teachers of doing something bad to her
The headteacher calms her down
He informs her about her daughter’s odd behavior, such as talking to herself;
and he links it to one of the impacts of divorced parents on children
As they walk in the hallway,
they stop and talk about the posters of students’ artworks about “Mitsuko,”
the girl who disappeared two years ago
The headteacher tells her that Mitsuko once behaved oddly like her daughter did,
after her mother abandoned her
It makes Yoshimi unsettled, as she also notices the red bag worn by the girl from the drawings
The following day, Yoshimi is being interrogated by the legal officers,
to assess her capacity for her daughter’s custody
It turns out, her ex-husband once again exaggerated something about her to ruin her image,
such as picking up her daughter too late every day, and dislocating her shoulder
After that, Yoshimi furiously confronts her ex-husband for overdramatizing what happened
But he says he is just worried about their daughter,
which Yoshimi doubts, and asks him to stop playing dirty
Then, one of the legal officers interjects to stop them
As her ex-husband is about to go, he stubs out his cigarette against a hard surface
Yoshimi suddenly realizes the button with a mark of ash on the elevator,
and the red sling bag that came back to the roof, were all his doing
It then freaks her out; so she attacks her ex-husband
Meanwhile, Yoshimi’s attorney observes them,
and realizes that it is actually what her ex-husband wants her to do; to show that she is unstable
Then they talk over a coffee; and her attorney gives her advice to pull herself together,
and encourages her to stay strong
After the meeting, Yoshimi goes home, checks up on her daughter, and later falls asleep
The water drips from the ceiling
as it drops on Yoshimi’s face, it gives her a vision of Mitsuko
It shows the girl Mitsuko, wearing a yellow raincoat,
walking to the old apartment, and riding the elevator
Subsequently, Yoshimi wakes up in an empty bed; and the leak from the ceiling flows actively
Simultaneously, she realizes that her daughter has disappeared
She frantically goes downstairs, and looks through the monitor from the manager’s office
Then she realizes maybe her daughter is on the rooftop; so she rushes to the elevator
When she is alone in the elevator, the monitor shows the girl Mitsuko is with her
Soon after, she reaches the highest floor, and terrifyingly enters the rooftop
As she looks at the water tank, she catches sight of the young girl
She then walks toward the tank, only to see the red sling bag on the floor again
she concludes that her ex-husband had gone there
After that, she calls her ex-husband
but he denies that their daughter is with him
Suddenly, Yoshimi notices the ceiling, and hurries to check the room above them
Water overflows from the room; so she knocks on the door loudly, calling her daughter’s name
Surprisingly, it is unlocked; so she enters inside
The room is dark and flooded, as the water gushes out from the faucet and the ceiling
Then Yoshimi sees her sick daughter standing there, soaked in the water
the daughter walks spiritlessly toward her; and she carries her apprehensively
Yoshimi is terrified, as she can sense someone’s presence in the room
So she leaves in a hurry, holding her daughter in her arms
As they come out, she notices the name “Mitsuko” on the door,
and realizes that the young girl she had a glimpse of previously, was Mitsuko;
and she lived in that room
The next day, Yoshimi’s attorney visits them,
while Yoshimi is packing some of their things, planning to move out
her attorney advises her that
the current situations might affect the committee’s decision on her daughter’s custody
Yoshimi insists that her ex-husband has returned to the apartment
She is afraid that he is trying to take the daughter away from her
Moments later, Yoshimi and the group go to check the room upstairs
They are surprised that it is unlocked
they enter the room, only to see the shabby room
It turns out, Mitsuko’s father lived there for a while;
so the water ran for the past six months after he moved out
The attorney confronts the agent and the manager,
as Yoshimi had reported the leakage; but they did not do anything
It seems like they already know about the issue in the apartment
Later on, they go to the roof and inspect the area
the attorney tells the manager that the red bag in the trash bin was there that night,
but is mysteriously gone again
They remain puzzled about who keeps it or puts it back
Then, the attorney points out the scruffy water tank
He asks the manager about it, which upsets him; and he walks out
After that, the attorney talks about what Yoshimi saw that night,
and explains that the light surrounding the building could cast a shadow on the tank
Therefore, her perception may have tricked her into seeing a figure
The next day, the apartment ceiling is getting fixed; and the attorney revisits them
He reassures Yoshimi about her status of getting her daughter’s custody,
and encourages her to stay strong and contact him in case of trouble
Later during dinner, Yoshimi and her daughter talk about going back to school
Yoshimi gets her backpack to fix her things;
when suddenly, she freaks out as she finds the red bag in her daughter’s backpack
She immediately tries to contact her attorney; but unfortunately, he takes a day off
As Yoshimi turns around, she sees her daughter strangely smiling, while holding the red bag
She quickly grabs the bag,
which however, gives her a flash of a scene when the bag dropped into the water
She tells her daughter to stay there, and rushes to the water tank
On the rooftop, Yoshimi slowly walks toward the tank and touches it
Then, a scene of Mitsuko flashes in, when she was climbing up the water tank
After that, Yoshimi comes to reality, and does the same
On the other side, the daughter gets some tap water;
when suddenly, a tuft of hair comes out of the faucet
Simultaneously, the tab faucet is dripping dark water excessively
As Yoshimi climbs up the tank,
she discovers that it has not been cleaned, since Mitsuko went missing
Then Yoshimi sees a flash of a deadly accident again,
showing how Mitsuko accidentally fell into the tank,
as she tried to reach the red bag she had dropped in it
That explains how Mitsuko died and became a haunting spirit
After that, Yoshimi climbs down the tank;
and she suddenly hears some noise from the tank,
and screams out loud as something heavily thumps in the tank
Meanwhile, the daughter persistently tries to turn off the faucet,
as it is continuously dripping heavily with dark water
Moments later, she notices some heavy bubbles,
and suddenly the girl from the tub grabs and swamps her in the tub
Soon after, Yoshimi returns to their unit,
and finds her daughter on the bathroom floor, while a deluge of dark water flows from the tub faucet
She is perturbed, so she hurries outside, holding her daughter
Unfortunately, the elevator is malfunctioning
The dark water seems to be hindering them,
as it also flows in the elevator and causes a short circuit
Later on, Yoshimi panics as she sees their door gradually open;
and her daughter comes out with her eyes closed
Yoshimi is bewildered as she thought she was holding her daughter
All of a sudden, Mitsuko attacks her in the elevator
Yoshimi screams that she is not her mother,
since Mitsuko seems like she has been longing for her mother, who abandoned her in the past
the daughter then comes to her senses, and runs toward her
In order to make Mitsuko stop and save her daughter,
Yoshimi decides to sacrifice herself to be Mitsuko’s mom
Right after her promise, the elevator goes up suddenly,
leaving the daughter devastated by the loss of her mom
the daughter tries to go after them, and runs up the stairs
As she reaches the highest floor, she stands in front of the elevator
Suddenly, it opens; and the dark water gushes out, but there is no sign of her mother
After a decade, the daughter is now a high schooler
She takes off the bus with her friends in front of the kindergarten
A girl standing alone catches her attention, and reminisces about her childhood with her mom
Moments later, she decides to visit their old apartment, which is now abandoned
She wanders around, and sees their picture is still there
As she is about to leave, she notices the ghost of her mom standing there
the daughter is surprised to see her mother again, and happily speaks with her
She believes that her mother is still alive, and convinces her to live together
As Yoshimi apologizes, her daughter senses the presence of Mitsuko
Then when the daughter quickly turns around to see, her mother disappears without a trace
She is now again left wretched
The movie ends with the daughter leaving the building,
realizing that her mom has always been there, protecting her from the harm of Mitsuko
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