Black Box Diaries

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Black Box Diaries

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and emotional first-person video, Shiori’s quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.

"[Ito] wants us to see her when she is vulnerable and in pain. But the film itself is a testament to her courage".
Nell Minow, RoberEbert.com
"Ito’s presence propels the film; her passion, vulnerability, and resilient strength are the film’s most compelling components, as they should be, and it’s hoped that the closure she’s pursued finally found its way to her."
Brian Farvour, The Playlist


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