The original, Japanese Dark Water is amazing.  It's written by the same author that wrote The Ring (Ringu).  We saw the American version of this movie earlier this year and LOVED it (Pete Postlethwaite plays the weirdest building super.  He gave me shivers!).

We weren't sure what to expect from the movie.  Andrew bought the short story that the movie is based on.  It's only 15 pages long, and it's not very fleshed-out. The movie was amazing.  In fact, it's almost shot-for-shot with the American movie (of course the Japanese movie was first ... so the American movie was benefiting from the amazing Japanese version).

As with many Asian horror films, the story is awesome - emotional, supernatural, heartbreaking.  The acting in this movie was very natural and warm, sometimes Japanese movie characters can seem very stylized and stereotypical.

We just happened to catch this on TV.  I'm so blown away that subtitled movies are being shown on TV now, like it's nothing.  Even one of the video stores we go to puts the Foreign new releases in with everything else.  Gotta love progress!

[photo taken 9-10-2006 in Chadd's Ford, PA]