COUNTRY: United Kingdom, Japan, United States YEAR: 2024 RUNNING TIME: 102 min
DIRECTED BY: Shiori Itō
LANGUAGE(S): Japanese
SUBTITLES: English
PRODUCER: Shiori Itō, Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin
EDITED BY: Ema Ryan Yamazaki
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Shiori Itō, Yuta Okamura, Hanna Aqvilin, Keke Shiratama, Yuichiro Otsuka
MUSIC: Mark degli Antoni
Screenings
Synopsis
BLACK BOX DIARIES follows director and journalist Shiori Ito’s 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and emotional first-person video, Shiori’s quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.
Director
Shiori Itō
Biography
Shiori Ito, born in Kanagawa, is a Japanese journalist, author, and filmmaker. After studying photography and journalism in New York, she first worked in the United States and Italy before returning to Japan. In 2017, she published the book Black Box about her rape by an influential journalist. The book became the basis for her award-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary BLACK BOX DIARIES.
Ito emerged as a central voice of Japan’s #MeToo movement and has received numerous international honors, including the Free Press Association of Japan Award (2018) and the title “Journalist of the Year” at the One Young World Summit (2022).
In 2020 Time Magazine included her in its list of the 100 most influential people worldwide. With BLACK BOX DIARIES, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Ito presents her first feature-length film.
Filmography
Black Box Diaries (2024)