Currently Browsing: Sexual Assault
In Black Box Diaries, journalist Shiori Itō traces eight years of her life as she investigates and tries to seek justice for her own sexual assault. In a telling scene fairly early on in the film, a member of the Japanese parliament is questioning the Speaker about Itō’s case and the links between then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the perpetrator, acclaimed journalist Noriyuki Yamaguchi.… read more.
“I… think this film is particular and it will find you when it’s meant to find you – if it’s meant to find you,” Eva Victor (the director of the 2025 film, Sorry, Baby) told an interviewer recently.
It found me.
Before seeing Sorry, Baby last July, I had deliberately avoided reading much about the film, so I didn’t realize until the credits rolled that the actress who played the protagonist Agnes so effectively was the director Eva Victor herself.… read more.