Japanese journalist Shiori Ito's debut documentary "Black Box Diaries" is not only one of the most acclaimed films of the year, but also a high point in Japanese cinema. Nominated for Best ...

Yet, despite being the first full-length documentary made by a Japanese director ever nominated for an Oscar, the movie cannot be seen in her home country. In the film, “Black Box Diaries ...

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“People in general and theatres in this case are more risk averse in Japan than, for example, the States. And they feel more vulnerable to legal claims and trouble,” Black Box Diaries producer ...

Why won’t Japan’s theaters screen "Black Box Diaries," the Academy Award-nominated documentary by journalist and filmmaker Shiori Ito? Ito, the face of Japan’s #MeToo movement, has fought for justice ...

Shiori Ito’s Black Box Diaries may have lost to No Other Land at the Oscars, but both the filmmaker and her film have long been making waves in Japan. Black Box Diaries, nominated for best documentary ...

In April 2015, Itō Shiori was a 25-year-old intern at the Japan office of Thomson Reuters ... s harrowing and powerful documentary, Black Box Diaries, is taken from something a prosecutor told ...

The documentary lost to No Other Land but Shiro and her movie are being talked about in Japan. Black Box Diaries is about the investigation that Shiori Ito herself did after she suffered sexual ...

Shiori Ito’s Black Box Diaries may have lost to No Other Land at the Oscars, but both the filmmaker and her film have long been making waves in Japan. The story begins in 2015 when she meets the ...