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Love and Other Cults (2017)
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Love and Other Cults (2017)
Original name: 獣道
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 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.
Style: captivating, entertaining, horror comedy, weird
Plot: teenager, schoolgirl, youth, criminal, teenage life, society, social misfits, sex, mafia, asian, prostitute, gang, motorcycle, blonde, prostitution, japanese schoolgirl, japanese woman, coming of age, urban setting, thug, delinquent, loss of innocence, swashbuckler, cleavage, bandana ...
Place: japan

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I Don't Have Many Friends (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
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Haruko Azumi Is Missing (2016)
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Duration: 101 min.
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Gippi (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
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Couch Potatoes (2017)
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Duration: 120 min.
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Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 64 min.
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Duration: 110 min.
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Duration: 94 min.
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