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  • Release Date: 2006
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  • Rating: StarStar
  • Genre: Culture & Society
  • Movie Type: Religions & Belief Systems, Social Issues
  • Themes: Religious Zealotry, Cults, Terrorism
  • Director: Tatsuya Mori
  • Release Year: 1998
  • Country: JP
  • Run Time: 136 minutes

Plot

The 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway shook Japanese society, resulting in bitter recriminations and national soul-searching comparable to Watergate in America. The group responsible -- Aum Shinrikyo -- was little known to the average Japanese. Believing in a mixture of varying strands of Buddhism along with elements of New Age spiritualism and with rumors of drug-use and bizarre rituals, the group and its members were widely vilified by Japan's voracious media. Six months after the gas attack when Aum's original leaders -- guru Shoko Asahara along with Ikuo Hayashi, Fumihiro Joyu, and others -- were carted off to jail, documentary filmmaker Tatsuya Mori approached Aum to shoot an objective fly-on-the-wall-style documentary about this much discussed and maligned sect. Focusing on the Aum's most visible member, not jailed Hiroshi Araki, Mori shows how frighteningly ordinary these members are. This film was screened at the 1999 Yamagata Documentary Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide


Credit

Tatsuya Mori - Director; Tatsuya Mori - Editor; Tatsuya Mori - Cinematographer; Tatsuya Mori - Sound/Sound Designer; Takaharu Yasuoka - Editor; Takaharu Yasuoka - Cinematographer; Takaharu Yasuoka - Producer; Takaharu Yasuoka - Sound/Sound Designer

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Wikipedia: A Movie

A Movie is a 1958 experimental film in which Bruce Conner put together snippets of found footage, taken from B-movies, newsreels, novelty shorts and other sources, to a musical score. The film depicts stock footage of race car drivers crashing, water skiers wiping out, explosions, women, scuba divers etc. The film is a montage of images. The images may mean very little by themselves but when edited together, it evokes certain emotions and ultimately a deeper meaning. The film has been described as a metaphor for sex where the men traveling are the sperm. The film ends when the scuba diver (winning sperm) reaches the egg.

The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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