Black Box Diaries (2024)

10/24/2024Documentary1h 43m
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A night that changed her life became a scandal that rocked a nation.

Overview

Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Shiori Ito

    Self

  2. Noriyuki Yamaguchi

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Cast 1

    Shinzo Abe

    Self (archive footage)

This is quite an harrowing watch at times whilst we follow Japanese journalist Shiori Itô as she seeks justice for an alleged rape a few years earlier. To be fair, up front, this is not a balanced documentary but a potent video-diary style presentation crafted by the woman herself to not only document the course of her own battle, but also to illustrate just how out-dated the legal processes were in a nation that's legal system still treated women as a possession of a man in many ways. We identify the accused - from whom we do not hear directly or via his representatives, and from there on we ...