The Ripples (2002)
1h 52m
Running Time
November 23, 2002Release Date
Plot.
Inako Natsui is a quiet, modern girl working in a laboratory and living a closed and somewhat monotonous life in a small town. From time to time she goes to nearby to visit her lonely mother Wakayama who has been a widow for the past seventeen years. The girl's relatives, particularly Aunt Sadako and Uncle Shuhei, the local mayor's deputy, plan to introduce her to a suitable young man, but Inako has no real desire to get married. She is more interested in the hot mineral springs from where she takes her laboratory specimens. This all changes when she meets Mr Tamamiza, a young divorced man who's been left with a little boy. Her relatives are decidedly against the match. The girl falls in love with the man without realizing that she will encounter a painful conflict between her family and providence, as unexpectedly as the spring which gushes out from the geological fold, driven to the surface by mysterious subterranean forces.
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Cast & Crew.

Miako Tadano
Natsui Inako

Etsushi Toyokawa
Tamamizu Tatsuo

Keiko Matsuzaka
Natsui Sumie

Ittoku Kishibe
Dr. Obana

Mayumi Tenkô
Mimasu Sadako

Kosuke Matsushima
Director of Photography

Kitaro
Mimasu Shuuhei

Kaori Kishitani
Music

Naoki Nagao
Screenplay / Director / Editor

Kanako Nakayama
Original Story

Yasushi Yamazaki
Producer

Keishi Kuroki
Producer
Details.
Release DateNovember 23, 2002
Original Nameさゞなみ
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 52m
Genres
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