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I'm David First, WNYC's weekend edition host, filling in for Brian today.

Every year in Oscar season, as most of the media focus on the competition for best picture and best actors,

the Brian Lair Show invites the makers of the five nominees for Best Feature-length

documentary on to talk about their films. And we'll kick off the series with one of those

interviews right now, and then I'll be back to finish up today's show. But here's Brian Lair with the

director of the film Black Box Diaries recorded last week.

This is the intensely personal and yet very public autobiographical story of journalist Shiori Ito,

who became kind of the face of the Me Too movement in Japan after she went public in 2017

with an accusation of rape against a prominent male journalist there,

Nori Yuka Yamaguchi, who was close with the Prime Minister, Shenzhou Abey.

The film, Black Box Diaries, is based on the book that Edo wrote about her ordeal and eventual legal victory called Black Box. The legal victory, like with

E. Jean Carroll and Donald Trump, for example, was not a criminal conviction, but a civil suit

with the damages award. And like Mr. Trump, Mr. Yamaguchi continues to deny he did anything wrong.

As you might imagine, Ciora Ito suffered all kinds of public

shaming and social media abuse in the process. The film even opens with a trigger warning

for people who have suffered sexual abuse themselves and might find certain scenes hard to watch.

So take that trigger warning as a warning even for this segment.

Much of her interaction with people in Black Box Diaries is in Japanese, but the actual video

diary entries are in English. So here's a clip from the opening one before we bring

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