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Black Box Diaries (2024)

Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan's outdated judicial and societal systems. (NR, 103 min.)

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Friday, November 14, 2025

6:00 PM

BLACK BOX DIARIES follows director and journalist Shiori Ito’s 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and emotional first-person video, Shiori’s quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s desperately outdated judicial and societal systems. [Grasshopper Film]

Director: Shiori Itô
Genre: Documentary

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"“One of the best documentaries you’ll see all year.""

— Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone

"The film is often shocking — it is also a preface to seismic change that would surely not have happened without Shiori Itō."

— Danny Leigh, Financial Times

"In its devastation and familiarity, Ito’s debut feature finds company among works that realize the power of survivor testimony."

— Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter

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

— Peter Bradshaw, Observer (UK)

"A remarkably intimate non-fiction exposé about the ordeals women suffer after being sexually assaulted—and the strength, courage and togetherness required to change that status quo."

— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

"Black Box Diaries is a generous, courageous, and ultimately hopeful film end to end, cementing Ito—named by Time as one of the world’s most influential people in 2020—as a significant new voice."

— Tomris Laffly, Harper's Bazaar