AUM: The Cult at the End of the World

In 1995 the world was horrified when the release of a deadly nerve gas in Tokyo’s crowded subway system killed thirteen people and injured thousands more. But what came next was even more unbelievable: The attack was the work of a doomsday cult.

Directors Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto shine a bright light on a dark story that is little know today, even in Japan, tracing the shocking evolution of a spiritual group into a terrorist organisation stockpiling weapons of mass destruction from the collapsed Soviet Union. Features a wealth of historical footage as well as in-depth interviews with the courageous few who were willing to take on the cult when Japan’s police and mass media were looking the other way.

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