Ripples(Hamon)

A devout member of a local cult, Yoriko is a woman who believes that her life is at peace, like the waves in her carefully paved zen garden. But when her estranged husband returns years after abruptly disappearing, the peaceful waves in her life are disturbed by one turmoil after another. A quietly angry and darkly funny indictment of paranoia and discrimination in modern Japan featuring a pitch-perfect performance by Tsutsui Mariko, Ogigami Naoko’s follow-up to Riverside Mukolitta (46th) continues an intriguing stylistic evolution that sees the writerdirector pivot towards more cynical humour and morally compromised characters.