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Speaking With Shiori Ito: How the Journalist Used Storytelling to Confront Her Sexual Abuse

Doc Weekly is covering this year’s BFI London Film Festival with reviews and interviews from some of our favourite documentaries. Our writer Ellie Malpas interviewed Shiori Itō , director of Black Box Diaries, which comes out in UK cinemas today, the 25th of October 2024. Shiori Ito is known as a leader of Japan’s #metoo movement, after she chose to pursue the man who raped her, an influential journalist.