Director Atsushi Sakahara chronicles his intimate journey of confronting the doomsday cult behind the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo metro system on March 20th, 1995 in the new documentary Me and the Cult Leader.
Sheffield DocFest
NAME OF FESTIVAL: Sheffield Doc/Fest
SINCE: 1994
WHERE: Sheffield, UK
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