Love and Other Cults
2017 1h 35m movie Film Japan

Love and Other Cults

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Synopsis

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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.

The 2016–2018 Japan Window

602 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Love and Other Cults sits at position #240.

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The 2010s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year in the 2010s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Love and Other Cults premiered. 1769 total titles in this decade from Japan.

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Reception Benchmarks

7.4
TMDB Rating
18
Audience Reviews
Highly Rated
Critical Tier

Ranked #1,488 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (68th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is +0.5 points above the Japan average of 6.9/10.

Among Japan Comedy productions specifically: #537 of 1,411 (top 38%).

Production Details

Primary Country Japan
Original Language Japanese
Production Companies Third Window Films
Runtime 1h 35m
Release Date July 15, 2017
IMDb tt5645536

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