Arrow Video is releasing a Darkish Water 4K UHD Blu-ray to offer the J-Horror basic a visible touch-up and a few intriguing extras.
Darkish Water 4K UHD Particulars
After terrifying audiences worldwide with the blockbuster J-Horror basic Ring and its sequel, director Hideo Nakata returned to the style for Darkish Water, one other extremely atmospheric, and critically acclaimed, story of the supernatural which took the frequent theme of the “useless moist lady” to new heights of suspense and drama.
Like Nakata’s different J-Horror basic, Darkish Water relies on a brief story by Ring writer Koji Suzuki, Darkish Water follows Yoshimi, a single mom struggling to win sole custody of her solely youngster, Ikuko. Once they transfer into a brand new house inside a dilapidated and long-forgotten condominium complicated, Yoshimi begins to expertise startling visions and unexplainable sounds, calling her psychological well-being into query, and endangering not solely her custody of Ikuko, however maybe their lives as effectively.
Superbly shot by cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi (Ring, Pulse), and that includes an particularly unnerving sound design, Darkish Water efficiently merges spine-tingling rigidity with a household’s heart-wrenching emotional battle, creating one of many very best and most unsettling modern Japanese horror movies.
The Restricted Version launch may be purchased with the unique art work on a slipcover completely from the Arrow retailer.
Product Options
- 4K (2160p) Extremely HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Imaginative and prescient (HDR10 appropriate)
- Authentic lossless 5.1 DTS-HD Grasp Audio
- Elective English subtitles
- Ghosts, Rings and Water – interview with director Hideo Nakata
- Household Terrors – interview with writer Koji Suzuki
- Visualizing Horror – interview with cinematographer Junichiro Hayashi
- Archive interviews with actors Hitomi Kuroki & Asami Mizukawa and theme music artist Shikao Suga
- Authentic ‘making-of’ documentary
- Trailers and TV Spots
- Reversible sleeve that includes authentic and newly commissioned art work by Peter Pressure
- Illustrated collector’s booklet that includes writing on the movie by David Kalat and Michael Gingold
Darkish Water 4K UHD Blu-ray will likely be launched on March 18, 2024.
