Shiori Ito sees ‘most reactive screening’ in Japan to her film on sexual assault
Journalists crammed into Tokyo’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club on Monday to hear Shiori Ito speak following the long-delayed domestic release of “Black Box Diaries,” her 2024 documentary chronicling her experience as a survivor of sexual assault.While the documentary has been screened worldwide and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Academy Awards — making Ito the first Japanese feature-length filmmaker nominated in the category — its release in Japan had been put on hold.“(Friday’s) screening was the most reactive screening we have ever had. We have screened Black Box Diaries in over 60 countries, but following the first domestic screening, I have never received so many letters and messages before,” Ito told reporters.
