Still from Black Box Diaries. Two women, one is out of focus, looking to the side.
Black Box Diaries
Still from Black Box Diaries
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Directed & Produced by

Shiori Ito

Produced by

Eric Nyari and Hanna Aqvilin

Executive Impact Produced by

Danielle Turkov Wilson and Amy Shepherd

Impact Produced by

Ugne Pilkionyte

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and emotional first-person video, her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems.

Black Box Diaries is a participant of Project: Hatched 2024.

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Meet the Filmmakers
A woman, dark brown hair, standing outside with a film camera over her left shoulder, she wears headphones around her neck.
Shiori Ito
Photo courtesy Shiori Ito
A man with brown hair looks into the camera, smiling, blurry background.
Eric Nyari
Photo courtesy Eric Nyari
Blonde woman looks into the camera, blurry trees in the background.
Hanna Aqvilin
Photo courtesy Hanna Aqvilin
topics & tags
Criminal Justice
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Project: Hatched 2024
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