Me and the Cult Leader (2021)

Original title

AGANAI 地下鉄サリン事件と私

Directed by

Atsushi Sakahara

Genre

documentary film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 54m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A victim of a 1995 terrorist attack and a current member of the cult responsible for it travel together through their shared home region. The film documents their conversations and interactions.

intimateconfrontationalreflectivesomberpersonaluncomfortableconversationalrestrained

What happens

Me and the Cult Leader (Aganai) is a 2020 Japanese documentary film. The film follows the director, Atsushi Sakahara, a victim of the 1995 Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Attack, and Araki Hiroshi, a current executive member of the doomsday cult Aleph (previously Aum Shinrikyo) behind the attack, as they travel to their hometowns in the Kyoto prefecture. It premiered at the Sheffield Doc Fest as part of its Ghosts and Apparitions strand. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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