Shoko Asahara
Birthday: 1955-03-02
Place of Birth: Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan
Biography: Shoko Asahara (麻原 彰晃, Asahara Shōkō, March 2, 1955 – July 6, 2018) was a Japanese religious activist, political activist, terrorist, and former death row inmate. His real name was Matsumoto Chizuo (松本 智津夫, Matsumoto Chizuo). He was born in Yatsushiro City, Kumamoto Prefecture. He was the spiritual leader of Aum Shinrikyo (meaning "Supreme Truth"), a Japanese apocalyptic sect that syncretizes Buddhist and Christian elements which was accused of carrying out the sarin gas terrorist attacks on the Tokyo subway in 1995. He was sentenced to death as responsible for the attacks. After his execution was postponed in 2012 following the arrest of other suspects, he was executed by hanging on July 6, 2018.
Movies
Shoko Asahara with Takeshi
Sect leader of Aum Shinrikyo, known as Shoko Asahara, and Takeshi Kitano meet in an interview....
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Aganai: Me and the Cult Leader - A Modern Report on the Banality of Evil
Atsushi Sakahara, a victim of the 1995 sarin gas attack in Tokyo's subway system, travels with Hiros...
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Killer Cults - Blinded By The Light
This series exploring sects reveals how such organisations function like miniature dictatorships and...
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AUM: The Cult at the End of the World
The shocking story of Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult that unleashed a deadly nerve gas in Tokyo’s ...
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Genesis
Propaganda anime produced by the notorius Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo....
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