Black Box Diaries review – inside the remarkable events that triggered Japan’s #MeToo movement

Japanese journalist Shiori Itō tells how she pursued her rape case against a prominent TV executive
This is the remarkable story of Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, who waived a legal right to anonymity to pursue her rape case against prominent TV news executive Noriyuki Yamaguchi. The film gives us fly-on-the-wall video footage of her embattled life as she prepared her legal case and later as she wrote her memoir of the events, Black Box, named after the closed files on her case: the black boxes.
As a young journalism intern in 2015, she had turned up for what she thought would be a career-help chat with Yamaguchi. She was confused and uncomfortable to find it was at a bar where turning down his hospitality would be impolite; she became drunk and says she regained consciousness in a hotel room to find Yamaguchi raping her. Later, in a police station, officers made...
This is the remarkable story of Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, who waived a legal right to anonymity to pursue her rape case against prominent TV news executive Noriyuki Yamaguchi. The film gives us fly-on-the-wall video footage of her embattled life as she prepared her legal case and later as she wrote her memoir of the events, Black Box, named after the closed files on her case: the black boxes.
As a young journalism intern in 2015, she had turned up for what she thought would be a career-help chat with Yamaguchi. She was confused and uncomfortable to find it was at a bar where turning down his hospitality would be impolite; she became drunk and says she regained consciousness in a hotel room to find Yamaguchi raping her. Later, in a police station, officers made...
- 10/22/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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