Black Box Diaries

Name: Black Box Diaries
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 25, 2024
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 82
Cast: Shiori Ito

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MTV Documentary Films | Release Date: October 25, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Shiori Ito

Summary: 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 Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.

Director: Shiori Ito

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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The Playlist Brian Farvour

Jan 26, 2024

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. Read full review

Fionnuala Halligan

Jan 26, 2024

It seems to encapsulate a generation’s dreams and disappointments, torments and triumphs. Even if it takes place on the other side of the world, it’s still a story we all know when we see it. Read full review

Jan 26, 2024

It’s not an easy story to stomach, but in this staggering documentary playing in competition at Sundance, the journalist-turned-filmmaker crafts a stunning, effective tale of reclaiming victimhood and the fight for justice. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Oct 22, 2024

Itō is an amazing personality: an intelligent, courageous journalist who may have changed the course of Japanese history. Read full review

Phil de Semlyen

Oct 24, 2024

A film made with cold courage by the victim of a sexual assault, this gripping Japanese documentary plays like a ’70s conspiracy thriller. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Jan 22, 2024

Its devastation is familiar. But because filmmaker Shiori Itō is both survivor and journalist, and recorded her own investigation into her assault in real time, the documentary becomes a thrilling testament to her exceptional, tenacious agency in the face of a hostile world. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Oct 24, 2024

The movie’s intimacy is appealing; on occasion, it can be claustrophobic. Black Box Diaries is, at heart, a first-person account, and while it’s successful on those terms, it’s finally more emotionally engaging than intellectually satisfying. Read full review

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