Black Box Diaries
Documentary
7.588/10
|US
|en
|103 min
Release Date: 2024-10-24
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 Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country's outdated judicial and societal systems.
Production Companies
STAR SANDSHanashi FilmsCineric CreativeSpark Features
User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7/10
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 ...
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