Atsushi SAKAHARA

Atsushi SAKAHARA, born in Kyoto in 1966, studied at Kyoto University and initially worked in the advertising industry. Subsequently, he studied economics in the USA and produced the award-winning short film BEAN CAKE (2001) by David Greenspan. In 2012, he directed his first short film DON’T CALL ME FATHER. In 2015, he began working on his feature-length debut ME AND THE CULT LEADER (2020 / NC ’21). He is the founder of the production company Good People. As a victim of the sarin gas attack of the Omu Shinrikyo cult himself and a spokesperson for the recovery involving this terror attack, he is committed to the reappraisal of the incident.