The read
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 96% of the 915 2000s horror movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes84%
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
755 audience votes
Key crew
- Hideo NakataDirector
- Yoshihiro NakamuraScreenplay
- Kenji KawaiOriginal Music Composer
- Takashige IchiseScreenplay
- Hideo NakataScreenplay
- Kenichi SuzukiScreenplay
Cast
- Hitomi KurokiYoshimi Matsubara
- Rio KannoYoung Ikuko Matsubara
- Mirei OguchiMitsuko Kawai
- Asami MizukawaIkuko Hamada
- Fumiyo KohinataKunio Hamada
- Yuu TokuiOta
- Isao YatsuKamiya
- Shigemitsu OgiKishida
- Maiko AsanoYoung Yoshimi's Teacher
- Yukiko IkariYoung Yoshimi
- Shinji NomuraMediator
- Kiriko ShimizuMediator
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Themes
based on novel or booknightmareparent child relationshipfamilyoccultghostchild custodynew apartmentheiseij-horrorjhorror
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