Two kids, one cult, zero adults they can trust — Japan's darkest subway disaster through innocent eyes.
Two children, each abandoned by their families, come together in the wake of the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo. Based on the true events of the deadly gas attacks perpetrated by members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult on the Tokyo subway system.
Acting
Hoshi Ishida and Mitsuki Tanimura carry unbearable weight.
Direction
Shiota refuses easy sentimentality or exploitation.
Director
Akihiko Shiota
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made just ten years after the 1995 attacks, when Japan was still processing Aum Shinrikyo's infiltration of elite universities and government.
Director Shiota cast non-professionals for the leads and kept their real first names — Hoshi and Mitsuki — blurring fiction with documentary reality.
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