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Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Jan 29 2025
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 f...
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Released
Original Language
English
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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