Love and Other Cults

Love and Other Cults

95 mins | Drama, Comedy | July 15, 2017

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.

Love and Other Cults

95 mins | Drama, Comedy | July 15, 2017

Love and Other Cults
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.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Third Window Films
Original title 獣道
Directors Eiji Uchida
Writers Eiji Uchida

Cast

Sairi Ito

as Ai Shima

Kenta Suga

as Ryota Sakuma

Anthony

as Kenta

Kaito Yoshimura

as Yuji Mieno

Hanae Kan

as Reika Kojima

Ami Tomite

as Manami

Hana Matsumoto

as Yuka Mita

Nanami Kawakami

as Miharu Kitami

Katsuya Maiguma

as Kazuharu Kitami

Matthew Chozick

as Cult Leader Lavi

Taro Yabe

as Seno

Denden

as Hisaya Kida

Léona Hirota

as Kaori Shima

Yoshimasa Kondo

as Tsunehiko Mita

Hako Ohshima

as Miki Mita

Chavetaro Ishizaki

as Biker1