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

Love and Other Cults

獣道

Synopsis

獣道

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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Comedy + Drama in Japan

462 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Comedy and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Love and Other Cults itself).

The 2016–2018 Japan Window

Love and Other Cults holds position #240 of 602 Japan films in the 2016–2018 window, below highlighted by audience rating.

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    #1

    The Relative Worlds

    ★ 9.1 · 2017
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    #2

    Sonic Mania Adventures

    ★ 9.0 · 2018
  3. My Korean Teacher
    #3

    My Korean Teacher

    ★ 8.8 · 2016
  4. My Hero Academia
    #4

    My Hero Academia

    ★ 8.7 · 2016
  5. DARLING in the FRANXX
    #5

    DARLING in the FRANXX

    ★ 8.6 · 2018
  6. KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world!!
    #6

    KONOSUBA – God's blessing on this wonderful world!!

    ★ 8.6 · 2016
  7. Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai
    #7

    Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai

    ★ 8.6 · 2018
  8. Mob Psycho 100
    #8

    Mob Psycho 100

    ★ 8.6 · 2016

The 2010s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in Japan, 1769 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Love and Other Cults premiered alongside 193 others.

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Position in Catalog

Released alongside 193 other Japan films in 2017.

The 3591st Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).

Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).

Audience Engagement

18
Reviews
32nd
Review-volume percentile
20th
Popularity percentile

18 audience reviews — more than 32% of Japan films in our index.

Popularity sits at the 20th percentile among Japan films.

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 CountryJapan
Original LanguageJapanese
Production CompaniesThird Window Films
Runtime1h 35m
Release DateJuly 15, 2017
IMDbtt5645536