Black Box Diaries

Black Box Diaries

Shiori Ito / 2024 / 103 min. / Japan, USA, UK

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and emotional first-person video, Shiori’s quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.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

  • “One of the best documentaries you’ll see all year."

    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone

  • "An anguished and urgent personal documentary—a film of investigation, confrontation, and action."

    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker

  • "Ito is an amazing personality: an intelligent, courageous journalist who may have changed the course of Japanese history."

    — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

  • "In its devastation and familiarity, Ito’s debut feature finds company among works that realize the power of survivor testimony."

    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter
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