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A bold and highly impactful reckoning with an assault.
Shiori Ito became a journalist so that she could document the lives of others. But one day, she herself became one of those others, when an older co-worker raped her. In this award-winning documentary, she chronicles her yearslong battle against an outdated, broken justice system within a patriarchal society.
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After the film: Q&A with Shiori Ito
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(only P&I)City 3
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City 2
Meet the director
Shiori Ito
Shiori Ito was born in 1989. She attended college in New York, earning a degree in photography and journalism. After working in the United States and Italy, she returned to Japan. Her legal battle with a high-profile TV journalist, whom she accused of rape, made her the figurehead of the Japanese #MeToo movement. BLACK BOX DIARIES premiered at Sundance and was subsequently screened at various festivals.