Japanese journalist Shiori Itō tells how she pursued her rape case against a prominent TV executive
his is the remarkable story of Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, who waived a legal right to anonymity to pursue her rape case against prominent TV news executive Noriyuki Yamaguchi. The film gives us fly-on-the-wall video footage of her embattled life as she prepared her legal case and later as she wrote her memoir of the events, Black Box, named after the closed files on her case: the black boxes.
As a young journalism intern in 2015, she had turned up for what she thought would be a career-help chat with Yamaguchi. She was confused and uncomfortable to find it was at a bar where turning down his hospitality would be impolite; she became drunk and says she regained consciousness in a hotel room to find Yamaguchi raping her. Later, in a police station, officers made her re-enact the event with a male dummy.
Perhaps without her previous educational experience in the US, Itō would not have been inclined to pursue her case. The film makes it clear that Itō had allies: an investigating officer in the Tokyo police gave her secret information on condition of anonymity and, more sensationally still, a hotel employee went on the record to testify he saw Yamaguchi carry a clearly incapable Itō into the building.
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