Love and Other Cults

Love and Other Cults

2017 · 95 min · JA · 7.4 (18 votes)
Dir. Eiji Uchida · Starring Sairi Ito, Kenta Suga, Anthony, Kaito Yoshimura, Hanae Kan, Ami Tomite
ComedyDrama

Born in a small town in Japan, a young girl named Ai is sent to a cult commune by her religious maniac mother and lives there for seven long years. After the cult is exposed by the police, Ai starts a new stage of life, going to a normal school for the first time, but she can’t find her place to fit in there. Ai drops out from the school and society, spending her life living with a rock-bottom delinquent family full of gangsters and call girls. In a strange twist of fate she finds herself back in a new and normal life, living with a middle-class family, but her troubled life continues to follow her into more deep and seedy paths.

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A disorienting and darkly humorous journey through a life shaped by unconventional upbringing. It feels like a bizarre, off-kilter coming-of-age story where societal norms are constantly questioned, leaving you with a lingering sense of unease and empathy.

unsettlingmelancholicquirkydarkly comedicsteadyarthousecoming-of-agesocial commentaryidentitytraumabelongingsocietal alienation
japan
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