Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Up-coming movie: Death Water (Jap)>
Movie tittle: Death Water (Mizuchi)
Showing date: 21st Dec 2006 (SG)
Offical Website: http://www.mizuchi-movie.com/
Trailer: http://www.mizuchi-movie.com/trailer/mizuchiyokoku_1500k.wmv
Story line:
The Kanto region is experiencing mid-scale earthquakes one after another. Newspaper correspondent, Kyoko Togakure visits a nursing home in the outskirts of Tokyo. She finds the dead body of a resident. It was an apparent suicide. He's holding a piece of paper with the mystifying word 'Death Water' written on it. Nearby was a blood-stained scissors, and his eyes are squashed. She has no idea that this death is just the beginning of a horrendous nightmare.
Kyoko hears university professor Morikawa killed himself. She first met the professor a half year ago, the professor said at the time he was doing research on the cursed water known as 'death water.' The professor disappeared and is rumored to be living on the street. Kyoko learns he committed suicide after boring out his own eyes. Scribbled on all pages of his notebook is the same message 'Never drink death water.' His death coincides with unexplainable suicides by high school students in the area.
Hiromi Yazawa is the first student to kill herself after puncturing her eye with a pen. She's been complaining of an abnormal thirst and a nagging dullness. Many people continue to suicide. Kyoko suspects the repeated suicides have something to do with water. These areas are rich in underground water famed to taste good. So tap water, taken from wells, are being put into circulation after the minimum disinfection.
Kyoko is trying to find the head of all these link, she sees a loop emerging on a map after connecting recent earthquakes' epicenters. On the center of that loop sits Yomohira Town, which hosts a huge dam that reserves water for Tokyo residents. That's when the deep mist shrouding the words left by the deceased professor about the cursed water begins to clear up.
The earthquakes made water cloudy in the area that houses the dam. A mudslide caused by one of the earthquakes also led to the discovery of an archeological ruin in the area. Kyoko comes to the conviction that a chain of unusual events were caused by the cursed water. But Kyoko has no idea at this point the most shocking fact is just about to unfold..."
