BLACK BOX DIARIES SHIORI ITO

  • JAPAN | USA | UK

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  • JAPANESE

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  • 2024

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  • 103 mins

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and emotional first-person video, Shiori's quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.

Producer(s) or Production Company :

Eric Nyari, Hanna Aqvilin, Shiori Ito

Screenplay :

Shiori Ito

Director of Photography :

Hanna Aqvillin, Yuta Okamura, Shiori Ito, Yuichiro Otsuka

Editor :

Ema Ryan Yamazaki

Music :

Mark degli Antoni

Sound :

Andrew Tracy

Awards - Winner :

National Board of Review (Top 5 Documentaries), Sarajevo FF (Audience Award Feature Film), Seattle IFF (Lena Sharpe Award for Persistence of Vision), International Documentary Association (Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award), Zurich FF (Best Documentary)

Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection :

Academy Awards (Best Documentary Feature), BAFTA Awards (Best Documentary), Busan IFF (Documentary Section), Sundance FF (World Cinema), BFI London FF (Official Selection)

Shiori Ito (b.1989, Kanagawa, Japan) is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. She co-founded Hanashi Films, a Tokyo and London-based production company that has collaborated with NHK, BBC, and Al Jazeera, amongst others. In 2017, Shiori wrote the book BLACK BOX, based on her own experience of rape. The book reveals the sexism in Japan’s society and institutions and won the Free Press Association of Japan Award for Best Journalism in 2018. In 2020 she was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. BLACK BOX DIARIES is her feature documentary debut.