AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
2023 · Movie · NR · 106 min · ★ 6.0 · 65% critics
This documentary traces how a fringe spiritual group in Japan grew into a dangerous doomsday cult, culminating in a deadly 1995 attack on Tokyo’s subway. Using rare archival footage and firsthand testimony, it examines the warning signs, public blind spots, and the forces that allowed it to escalate.
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Details
- Years
- 2023
- Release date
- 2025-03-19
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Critic score
- 65/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.0/10 (1 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you’re drawn to unsettling true-crime documentaries about deception, radicalization, and institutional blind spots, like Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam or Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal; Not for you if you avoid graphic, distressing real events.
Pros: gripping real-world story; rare archival footage; firsthand interview | Cons: disturbing subject matter; heavy true-crime tone; limited broader context
Cast & crew
- SA
Shoko Asahara
as Self (archive footage)
Takeshi Kitano
as Self (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev
as Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
Donald Trump
as Self (archive footage)
Directed by Chiaki Yanagimoto, Ben Braun