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AUM: The Cult At The End Of The World

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  • 1hr 46m
  • 59

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Mar 19, 2025

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1hr 46m

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On March 20,1995 a deadly gas attack in Tokyo subway sent nation and its people into chaos. This exploration of Aum Shinrikyo, who is responsible for attack, involves the participation of those who lived through the horror as it unfolded.

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70
Jan 21, 2023

AUM: The Cult at the End of the World affords a detailed analysis of the causes of Asahara’s popularity, and the deeply rooted hang-ups that drove him to order the infamous assault—as well as numerous other crimes.

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Nick Schager
The Daily Beast
50
Jan 21, 2023

A generally compelling story with obvious contemporary and global resonances gets an unfortunately dry and surface-level retelling in Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto’s Aum: The Cult at the End of the World.

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Daniel Fienberg
The Hollywood Reporter
58
Jan 21, 2023

Braun and Yanagimoto’s film is frustratingly shortsighted about the societal conditions that allowed Aum to thrive in public for so long. Plenty of fingers are pointed, but most of them only in passing.

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David Ehrlich
IndieWire
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