Directed by Hideo Nakata Written by Kôji Suzuki   Takashige Ichise   Hideo Nakata   Ken'ichi Suzuki   Yoshihiro Nakamura   Cast Hitomi Kuroki ... Yoshimi Matsubara Rio Kanno ... Ikuko Matsubara (6 years old) Mirei Oguchi ... Mitsuko Kawai Asami Mizukawa ... Ikuko Hamada (16 years old) Fumiyo Kohinata ... Kunio Hamada Yû Tokui ... Ohta (real-estate agent) Isao Yatsu ... Kamiya (apartment manager) Shigemitsu Ogi ... Kishida (Yoshimi's lawyer) Maiko Asano ... Young Yoshimi's Teacher Yukiko Ikari ... Young Yoshimi Shinji Nomura ... Mediator Kiriko Shimizu ... Mediator Teruko Hanahara ... Old Lady (twin, elder) Youko Yasuda ... Old Lady (twin, younger) Shichirou Gou ... Nishioka Chisako Hara ... Kayo Tôru Shinagawa ... Principal (as Tohur Shinagawa) Shelley Calene-Black ... Yoshimi Matsubara (voice) Gabi Chennisi Duncombe ... Ikuko Matsubara (voice) (as Gabi Chennisi) Jay Hickman ... Kishida (voice) Mark Laskowski ... Ohta (voice) (as Mark X. Laskowski) Chris Ayres ... Principal (voice) (as Christopher Ayres) Andy McAvin ... Kunio (voice) Jessica Boone ... Teen Ikuko (voice) Ted Pfister ... Kamiya (voice) John Swasey ... Mediator (voice) Heather Bryson ... Mediator (voice) (as Heather LeMaster) Vic Mignogna ... Kono (voice) Vicki Barosh ... Auntie Kayo / Old Woman A (voice) Christine M. Auten ... Teacher Past / Ai's Mother / Recorded Message (voice) (as Christine Auten) Mariela Ortiz ... Teacher B (voice) Amanda Nanawa ... Teacher C / Mother (voice) Kaytha Coker ... Tshushima (voice) Quentin Haag ... Nishioka (voice) Luci Christian ... Teen Girl A / Answering Machine / Lady Directions (voice) April Brem ... Teen Girl B / Office Worker (voice) Mia ... Ai / The Ghost of Mitsuko / Hiding Girl A / Young Yoshimi (voice) Lidia Porto ... Secretary / Old Woman B / Additional Voices (voice) Cynthia Martinez ... Hiding Girl B / Additional Voices (voice) Hilary Haag ... Mao-chan / Additional Voices (voice) Kyle Jones ... Father / Mover A (voice) (as K.C. Jones) Rebecca Ayres ... Little Boy / Kobayashi / Additional Voices (voice) Emma Crabb ... Assistant / Potential Buyer (voice) Jacob A. Gragard ... Worker A / Mover C (voice) Matthew Crawford ... Worker B / Mover B (voice) (as Matt Crawford) Rie Hagiwara   Erika Hatanaka   Youko Hujimoto   Hibiki Izawa   Erika Kuroishi   Chihiro Ohtsuka ... (as Chihiro Ôtsuka) Tarô Suwa ... Boss of Yoshimi Matsubara Minako Tsuda   Produced by Takashige Ichise   Kyle Jones   John Ledford   Mark Williams   Original Music by Kenji Kawai Shikao Suga

Additional Info Premiere: January 19, 2002 DVD Release: June 21, 2005 Blu-ray Release: October 11, 2016 Country: Distributor: Arrow Films Websites: Alternate Titles Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara Production Companies Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co. Nippon Television Network (NTV) Video Audio Project (VAP) Nikkatsu Office Augusta Co. Ltd. Oz Company Distributors Toho   (2002) (World-wide) (all media) ADV Films   (2004) (USA) (DVD) (English language and subtitled versions) Rating Stats Overall Rating 6.3 / 10 Our Rating 5.8 / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users 5.2 / 10 Female Users 6.4 / 10 Site Ranking #2,936 / 20,710 Ratings Breakdown Perfect 5 total ratings Average 2 total ratings Mediocre 3 total ratings Crap 1 total rating Site Ranking #2,932 Beavis And Butt-Head: Season 5 (1994) #2,933 The Best Of Beavis And Butt-Head: Troubled Youth / Feel Our Pain (2002) #2,934 Beavis And Butt-Head - The Mike Judge Collection, Vol. 1 (2005) #2,935 Village Of The Damned (1995) #2,936 Dark Water (2002) #2,937 The Strangers: Prey At Night (2018) #2,938 The Omega Man (1971) #2,939 Lamb (2021) #2,940 Gretel & Hansel (2020)