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Thank you for reading! I hope you will enjoy Cure! Absolutely love the film!

Thanks for the info and warning about docuseries. I will certainly read up more on Rajneeshpuram.

Thanks! I have to thoroughly think this through and read more before deciding on writing a follow up, but indeed, there is so much more to Aum in all aspects of Japanese culture :)

I can't promise anything right now, my friend, but I'll think about it. Thanks for suggesting it :)

Thank you for the feedback :) Underground is such a great book. I will try my best with my next article.

Thanks, @WandereR. That's true, this tragic event should not be forgotten. I hope that the industry will continue to make movies about it and/or reference it in visual arts.

Thank you so much for reading, @kura2ninja!

The Author's Addendum: I'm sorry that descriptions under pictures got snapped with the main text. Everything looks good in the article editor, so sth must have malfunctioned with the code.

Thank you so much, dear @penel! I hope it will bright up your day :)

Thank you! I'm happy to you got more info on Aum from the article :)

Thank you so much for a kind comment and your insight @lucy_lu!

To be honest, the original draft of the article was much longer and I even thought about including a section on dramas, but I was afraid that I will be stretching my analysis and the readers' patience.

You're absolutely right about Bloody Monday, Trick, and Cold Case, but it's interesting to look at many popular dramas of the late 90s (Bayside Shakedown, GTO, Hero) in another way. That perhaps they were made purposely to promote among the Japanese public the image of hardworking services (the police, the court, the school) - the institutions that failed in the face of Aum. But maybe I am reading too much into this.

Thank you for reading! I hope that you will enjoy the films :)

Here's hoping that we can get an official online release of Mori's documentaries on streaming services. The first movie was a gripping watch to me.

Thanks! No, I did not mention Rajneeshpuram here, but I've read about it online as well and I have yet to see the Wild Wild Country docu. The parallels are fascinating, but thankfully, the Rajneesh guys really sucked at domestic terrorism/murder attempts and did not cause that much damage as Aum.

Thank you for the comment, kais! Yeah, it is very interesting how these cults start off and gain traction. It's fascinating that many people stay within these groups for decades or even lifetimes.

Thank you! I tried my best and I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

You're welcome and thank you for reading.

Respect to both of you for such a detailed article. It was a wonderful read!

You mean Totei? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLZHuQGLcEU

We did not forget about it, just ran out of space to fit it in the text.

Thank you for reading @BrightestStar! Indeed, NK feels like an off-world place: https://pics.me.me/jesuschrist-rest-of-the-world-are-you-even-trying-north-52153255.png xD

Awesome news.