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Directed by | Tatsuya Mori |
Produced by | Takaharu Yasuoka |
Starring | Hiroshi Araki |
Music by | Poe Pak |
Cinematography | Tatsuya Mori Takaharu Yasuoka |
Editing by | Tatsuya Mori Takaharu Yasuoka |
Studio | 'A' Production Committee |
Distributed by | Tidepoint Pictures (2006) Facets Multimedia Distribution (2008) Gold View Company Ltd. |
Release date(s) | 1998 |
Running time | 136 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
A is a 1998 Japanese documentary film about the Aum Shinrikyo cult following the arrest of its leaders for instigating the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995. The film focuses on a young spokesman for the cult Hiroshi Araki, a troubled 28 year-old who had severed all family ties and rejected all forms of materialism before joining the sect.