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Film Screening and Director Q&A
Ito Shiori, Black Box Diaries (2024, 104 minutes)
McCormick Screening Room
Thursday, April 2, 2026, 4-6 pm
Organized by Margherita Long and Xiangu Qi
In 2017, Japanese journalist Shiori Itō publicly accused a prominent media executive of rape and published a bestselling memoir detailing her case — Black Box, a book credited with sparking the #MeToo movement in Japan.
The documentary Black Box Diaries is a survivor’s real-time investigation of her own sexual assault. It includes raw video diaries (shot on Itō’s iPhone), surreptitious audio recordings of police negligence, and vérité courtroom footage. In her quest for justice, Itō documents her courageous struggle to navigate Japan’s patriarchal judiciary and antiquated sex crimes laws.
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