This film follows the moving story of 29-year-old Japanese journalist, Shiori Ito, who alleges she was raped by a well-known TV journalist and biographer of Japan’s prime minister, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, after the two met for a work dinner in 2015. Mr Yamaguchi strenuously denies the claims.
Despite reporting the case to the police, a process in which Shiori was required to re-enact the alleged rape with a life-size doll, the case was dropped after a year long investigation. When Shiori took the unprecedented decision to go public with her allegations and reveal her identity, she was met with with public humiliation and hate mail.
With unique access, the film follows Shiori over the year after she went public. While the global #MeToo movement galvanised women across the world to speak up about their allegations of sexual assault, in Japan the response was muted. Undeterred, Shiori visits the institutions she believes failed her and meets other women who are too afraid to speak out. The film interweaves Shiori’s story with the broader social context in Japan, where until 2017, the minimum sentence for rape was shorter than theft.
看到还有十分钟的时候实在抑制不住内心的怒火。把事情当作笑谈的山口敬之,嬉笑附和的男性电视主持人,全部让人感到生理性不适。而比之更让人绝望的是女性政治家批判“诗织是说谎”,笑着说在职场上遇到的不平等“山ほどある”,就是“需要去接受。”是电视节目上的女性画画讽刺说诗织是“以出卖肉体换取上位的失败”,是无数留言下的荡妇羞辱。恶心,恶心,恶心,shame on you!!诗织真是美丽又勇敢的女性。而现实中能像她一样条件的女性太少了,大多数人最终都会选择沉默,选择同意妹妹的那句“为什么一定要是你去战斗”吧。耻辱的又何止是日本,整个东亚的女性环境都没有好到哪里去。
事件最新进展是去年12月伊藤诗织的民诉获胜,法官做出性侵事实认定,山口表示不服将上诉。BBC作为纪录片业界翘楚,事件分析十分深入。首先,刑法长期未修改,暴力胁迫依然是要件,即使在诗织事件之后也没有改变。其次,性侵求助机构缺乏(和标准要求差十倍),流程也存在纰漏。第三,认定中的二次伤害,缺乏女性警察,可能存在包庇嫌犯。第四,文化影响(No means Yes),媒体议员和社会大众做受害者有罪推定。从这几个角度看,亚洲几个国家都一丘之貉,五十步笑百步,至少我能看到日本在野党去质询首相,去问责主管机关(不管是出于何种动机),官员打着官腔却能接待受害者的对峙。
可怕的是事件里被男权社会同化最终拥有男权思维模式的女议员,她把一切强奸猥亵都说得如此肆意,让我一时错觉她究竟是不是女性?原来她早就拥有和男性们一致的想法——“这些都是日常的事啊”“没什么大不了啊”“摸一下还不能忍了吗”“这有什么关系吗”,然后她开始帮助男性来谴责受害者女性大惊小怪。一滴水珠真的可以改变什么的,隐忍不是一个该被赞颂的品质,诗织真的好棒,full of courage and everything I adore.