Young journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender.
Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting and emotional first-person video, her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.
“Remarkable…Courageously candid…Not just a compelling and sympathetic human subject but a genuinely artful and intuitive filmmaker, Ito crafts Black Box Diaries with a keen sense of temporal drift and distortion”Variety
“[A] genuinely empowering film but also absolutely clear-eyed about the challenges that remain for women in Japan."The Financial Times
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