A football game played near Nagasaki's atomic ground zero – just months after 80,000 people died there – is the subject of a ...

Shiori Ito became one of the faces of Japan's #MeToo movement. Her documentary about that experience, 'Black Box Diaries,' is up for an Academy Award, even as it struggles to be screened back home.

Black Box Diaries: Oscar-nominated Japanese documentary that may never air in its own country. Shiori Ito’s film about her own alleged sexual assault has been screened at over 50 film festivals ...

A Japanese film crew has visited the island as part of a knitting documentary which includes the Guernsey jumper. Nippon Hoso Kyokai or NHK, which is Japan's publicly funded broadcaster, has ...

Shiori Ito took on a powerful journalist and the Japanese legal system after an alleged date rape, turning the ordeal into 'Black Box Diaries,' a documentary that premiered at Sundance.

The Australian filmmaker tackles an issue that makes uncomfortable viewing at times in 'The Ones Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japan.' By Gavin J Blair Shibuya, a Tokyo district of ...

The movie is the first by a Japanese documentary maker to be nominated for an Academy Award, yet remarkably, it may never be publicly shown in Japan. Ito said, ...

As the documentary recounts, Itō was interning for Thomson Reuters in 2015 when she was invited to what was described as a business get-together with Noriyuki Yamaguchi, a well-known Japanese TV ...

The 2016 Sundance Film Festival kicked off last week in Park City, Utah. I was there for a few days this weekend and, while I got to see a bunch of good movies (Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By ...

Why did the Oscar-nominated Japan #MeToo documentary not release in the native country? Black Box Diaries has raised legal and ethical concerns about use of certain video footage ...

One of Ito’s goals for the documentary is to have it shown in Japan, where it has yet to get distribution. She’s on the fence, though, about having family members — who haven’t seen ...