Top billed cast

1. 

   Shiori Ito

   Self

2. 

   Shinzo Abe

   Self (archive footage)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-01-29

This is quite an harrowing watch at times whilst we follow Japanese journalist Shiori Itô as she seeks justice for an alleged rape a few years earlier. To be fair, up front, this is not a balanced documentary but a potent video-diary style presentation crafted by the woman herself to not only document the course of her own battle, but also to illustrate just how out-dated the legal processes were in a nation that's legal system still treated women as a possession of a man in many ways. We identify the accused - from whom we do not hear directly or via his representatives, and from there on we...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• japan
• sexual violence
• justice
• human rights
• female journalist
• woman director
• sexual assault
• fight for justice
• gender equality
• systemic corruption
• corrupt legal system
• accountability
• me too movement
• disgusted