Japanese women are angry. If you didn't already know this you probably shouldn't be reading a review of The Ripple because you won't be interested in a film about older, enraged Japanese women. Underneath that calm exterior made even more inscrutable by the masks that the majority of Japanese women over 30 still (still!) insist...
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