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Film director Hideo Sakaki (56), who stood trial for the quasi-rape of two actresses in 2015 and 2016, has had his appeal rejected by the Second Petty Bench of the Supreme Court in a ruling dated November 4. This finalizes the 8-year prison sentence handed down by the Tokyo District Court (first trial) and upheld by the Tokyo High Court (second trial). According to the first- and second-trial rulings, Sakaki is said to have committed the sexual assaults under the guise of “acting coaching.” On 5ch’s Geinou/Sports News+ board, the main point of discussion was the differing treatment of director Sion Sono, who faces similar allegations of sexual misconduct but has never been indicted — threads noted that charges couldn’t be filed in his case because the victim had since died.
11/6 (Fri) 2:39 PM
Regarding film director Hideo Sakaki (56), who was charged with quasi-rape for sexually assaulting two actresses, the Second Petty Bench of the Supreme Court (Presiding Judge Kazumi Okamura) rejected the defendant’s appeal in a ruling dated the 4th. This finalizes the 8-year prison sentence handed down by the Tokyo District Court in the first trial and the Tokyo High Court in the second.
According to the first- and second-trial rulings, in 2015 at an office in Minato Ward, Sakaki sexually assaulted a woman who had been informally cast in a film he was directing, after misleading her into believing it was acting instruction. In 2016, he pressured another woman with lines like “I might be able to help you get into the project,” and went on to repeatedly sexually assault her at a hotel and other locations in Shibuya Ward.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Totally forgot about this.
Was it November?
Because the victim died by suicide.
Also, his buddy Houka Kinoshita had around 6 known victims too, as far as anyone can tell.
But because years had passed since the abuse, or for reasons like below, they had no choice but to swallow it and stay silent… these guys are truly scum.
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> The victim was reportedly plied with strong liquor, gotten drunk, and targeted.
> Her agency president, worried for her, advised her to file charges, but since she was likely to end up rumored as doing "makura eigyo" (casting-couch deals) afterward,
> and since she wanted to keep acting, she chose to just endure it in silence.
Crazy how just having kept video evidence or not ends up deciding your entire fate like this.
I thought it was the same guy under a different stage name or something — turns out there are actually two separate sex offenders?!
Can't they just swap Sakaki's scenes out with AI or something?
These 3, huh —
Aibou series (TV Asahi)
Season 3, Episode 12 "Announced Murder" (Jan 26, 2005) – as Masanori Akiyama
Season 11, Episode 18 "BIRTHDAY" (Mar 13, 2013) – as Saburo Oba
Season 15, Episode 18 "Proof of the Devil" (Mar 22, 2017) – as Shin'ichi Gunji
Just lock this freak up already.
Life in prison would've been fitting, honestly.
Sexually assaulting actresses like that — guys like him don't deserve to call themselves men.
Cold-blooded, lol.
Even once he's out, there's no way he's getting film work again.
Serves him right.
The film industry is exactly the kind of place where that's still possible, though.
They act so cool saying "nothing changes unless you speak up," but
from the Johnny Kitagawa scandal to TV stations pimping out talent for entertainment, they ignore every single one of these.
In the end, they're people who can't say a word once their own interests are on the line.
That guy actually acted it out himself, so he'd know.
https://www.tokyo-sports.co.jp/articles/-/320432?page=1
He was arrested four times in total, and the SD cards seized in the police search reportedly contained video and audio recordings of the acts.
According to the "Kuutsuu" case (a mocking 5ch nickname), even when a victim filed a report, the incident was from several years earlier and wasn't on the seized SD card,
so in cases like that one, where the abuse couldn't be confirmed, no charges could be filed.
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
The charge against Sakaki was “quasi-rape,” the legal term at the time of the offense; under the 2017 Penal Code revision it would correspond to “forced sexual intercourse,” and under the 2023 revision, to “non-consensual sexual intercourse.” An 8-year sentence is a fairly standard figure given the recent trend toward harsher penalties for sex crimes — it isn’t an especially severe one. The thread’s main point of comparison was director Sion Sono’s case, where similar allegations of sexual misconduct exist but no indictment has followed; however, this gap isn’t really about unequal sentencing so much as differences in what could be proven — things like the victim’s death and whether physical evidence (video and audio data) existed. Reading the difference in outcomes as simple unfairness risks missing that nuance. In the film and theater industry, sexual abuse by those holding “casting power” over actors has repeatedly become an issue, and this case — where the perpetrator reportedly used the guise of “acting instruction” — reflects that same underlying structure.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Director Hideo Sakaki’s Appeal Rejected, 8-Year Sentence Finalized… Sexually Assaulted Two Actresses.”
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