- Documentary
- 103 min
A night that changed her life became a scandal that rocked a nation.
Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country's outdated judicial and societal systems.
- Sexual violence
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jan 20257/10
This is quite an harrowing watch at times whilst we follow Japanese journalist Shiori Itô as she seeks justice for an alleged rape a few years earlier. To be fair, up front, this is not a balanced documentary but a potent video-diary style presentation crafted by the woman herself to not only document the course of her own battle, but also to illustrate just how out-dated the legal processes were in a nation that's legal system still treated women as a possession of a man in many ways. We identify the accused - from whom we do not hear directly or via his representatives, and from there on we focus on her attempts to see him face her accusations. The film now concentrates on the courageous efforts of a woman to see that process of justice done. The laws that inherently obstruct her need to be identified, addressed and replaced so as not to protect, or be seen to protect, any influential people from heinous crimes of any sort. It also goes on to demonstrate quite effectively just how difficult - if you are to adopt the "innocent til proven guilty" approach that underpins so much of the legal system - it is to adequately codify crimes of an intimate nature ensuring that they are to b
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Cast
- Shiori ItoSelf
- Shinzo AbeSelf (archive footage)
Crew
- Shiori ItoDirector
- Shiori ItoWriter
- Yuta OkamuraDirector of Photography
- Hanna AqvilinDirector of Photography
- Yuichiro OtsukaDirector of Photography
- Mark degli AntoniOriginal Music Composer
- Ema Ryan YamazakiEditor
- Eric NyariProducer
- Hanna AqvilinProducer
- Shiori ItoProducer
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