Black Box Diaries
Réalisation
Shiori ITO
Since 2015, in the wake of her assault by a powerful man close to the Prime Minister, Shiori Itō has been challenging the archaisms of Japanese society. Alone against all odds and confronted with the flaws of the media-judicial system, the journalist leads her own investigation, determined to break the omerta and expose the truth at all cost.
Réalisé par
Shiori ITO
Photographie
Hanna AQVILIN, Yuta OKAMURA, Shiori ITŌ & Yuichiro OTSUKA
Montage
Ema Ryan YAMAZAKI
Musique
Mark DEGLI ANTONI
Son
Andrew TRACY
Production
Hanashi Films
Eric NYARI (Hanashi Films)
Hanna AQVILIN (Hanashi Films)
Shiori ITŌ (Hanashi Films)
Hanna AQVILIN (Hanashi Films)
Shiori ITŌ (Hanashi Films)
Co-Production
Eric NYARI (Hanashi Films)
Hanna AQVILIN (Hanashi Films)
Shiori ITŌ (Hanashi Films)
Hanna AQVILIN (Hanashi Films)
Shiori ITŌ (Hanashi Films)
Distribution
ART HOUSE FILMS
Réalisé par
Shiori ITO
Shiori Itō is a journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker. She is primarily interested in gender and human rights issues. She co-founded Hanashi Films, a production company based in Tokyo and London, which has collaborated with NHK, BBC and Al Jazeera, among others.
In 2017, Shiori Ito wrote Black Box, in which she recounts her rape and her fight to bring her attacker to justice. Revealing sexual violence in Japan, the book won an award from the Free Press Association of Japan. Translated into several languages, it was published in France in 2019. A symbol of the #MeToo movement in Japan, Shiori Ito is voted by the Times as one of the 100 most influential personalities of 2020.
In 2023, she adapted her book into a documentary and directed Black Box. It was presented at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024 and won the HUMAN:RIGHTS award at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival the same year.
In 2017, Shiori Ito wrote Black Box, in which she recounts her rape and her fight to bring her attacker to justice. Revealing sexual violence in Japan, the book won an award from the Free Press Association of Japan. Translated into several languages, it was published in France in 2019. A symbol of the #MeToo movement in Japan, Shiori Ito is voted by the Times as one of the 100 most influential personalities of 2020.
In 2023, she adapted her book into a documentary and directed Black Box. It was presented at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024 and won the HUMAN:RIGHTS award at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival the same year.
