A night that changed her life became a scandal that rocked a nation.
Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country's outdated judicial and societal systems.
Documentaryjapansexual violencejusticehuman rightsfemale journalistwoman directorsexual assaultfight for justicegender equalitysystemic corruptioncorrupt legal systemaccountability
- Sexual violence
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Character
Earnest, grave, contemporary and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
Who loves it, who doesn't
1 profiled raters. Loved most by The Prestige Hunters.
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Cast
- Shiori ItoSelf
- Shinzo AbeSelf (archive footage)
Crew
- Shiori ItoDirector
- Shiori ItoWriter
- Yuta OkamuraDirector of Photography
- Hanna AqvilinDirector of Photography
- Yuichiro OtsukaDirector of Photography
- Mark degli AntoniOriginal Music Composer
- Ema Ryan YamazakiEditor
- Eric NyariProducer
- Hanna AqvilinProducer
- Shiori ItoProducer
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