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In his efforts to forget a five-year romance with a bewitching woman (Mei Ching Lam), Fai (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) ditches his career as a serious photojournalist and joins the ranks of the paparazzi. But when Fai's images of a glamorous socialite capture clues about her eventual murder, he works closely with an intern (Michelle Alicia Saram) to learn the truth about how the woman was killed. In the process, he must face ghosts from his painful past.
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Roughly chronological, from 3/96 to 11/96, with a coda in spring of 1997: inside compounds of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist sect led by Shoko Asahara. (Members confessed to a murderous sarin attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995.) We see what they eat, where they sleep, and how they respond to media scrutiny, on-going trials, the shrinking of their fortunes, and the criticism of society. Central focus is placed on Hiroshi Araki, a young man who finds himself elevated to chief spokesman for Aum after its leaders are arrested. Araki faces extreme hostility from the Japanese public, who find it hard to believe that most followers of the cult had no idea of the attacks and even harder to understand why these followers remain devoted to the religion, if not the violence.


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