The Wakayama Prefectural Police revealed on May 8, 2024 that Your Name. movie producer Koichiro Itou has been referred to prosecutors for additional violation
The Wakayama Prefectural Police revealed on May 8, 2024 that Your Name. movie producer Koichiro Itou has been referred to prosecutors for additional violation of Child Prostitution & Pornography law in Japan, after it came to light that he had paid an underage girl for sexual intercourse.
The latest case involved a 17-year-old high school girl from Yokohama. Investigators believe Itou knew the girl was a minor when he paid her 30,000 yen for having sexual intercourse at his residence in December 2023.
He is also suspected of taking and saving photographs of the act.
Koichiro Ito was the producer, NOT the director who is famous for creating those movies. He collaborated with the studio, he did not write or direct the films. Please do not destroy and undermine these beautiful works of art over a single credited contributor who did not create the films.
Further, he was only arrested in February of 2024 so the studio hasn't even had an opportunity to turn down future collaboration with him.
Damn. Sorry it has to be you, but i just can't remain silent, as this agenda of "the creator of an artpice made horrible things, so the artpiece itself is also horrible and therefore must be forgotten" just drives me so fucking mad. I guess it's hard to cope this thought, but an artpiece is still an artpiece and should be evaluated such. The author itself could be an absolutely terrible person deserving a death sentence, it doesn't mean his metaphorical child couldn't be as beautiful as of others. There's no guilt in admitting it if you remember that even the creation of the most marvelous masterpiece in the universe cannot be an excuse for the creator's sins. Not to mention this your way of thinking lots of time works other way around, painting famous creators as idols that cannot do nothing wrong. As soon as there will be both morally good and downright awful creators aknowledged of their particularly artistic skills, the aura of some kind of deities around creators of any kind of art will be demistified, therefore they will be finally judged just as any kind of other people, therefore it will be harder for them to cover up the fucked up shit, some of the hollywood directors are known for for example.
The artpiece should not be forgotten, so the wrongdoings of its creator won't be forgotten as well. I think its a lot more fair, just and harsh at the same time.
HARD disagree. You don't have to enjoy it, everyone is free to like what they like, but all three films are critically acclaimed and adored by fans worldwide for a reason. And no, not all popular media is good media, but these are not popular enough to fall into that category.
Miyazaki's movies are more in the "visually stunning but mid" status IMO. Like, Howl's was great, everything else is meh to me. But I also know that many people love them - including my wife - so I respect that they are good movies.
30,000 Yen is only about $300 in USD (using the "move the decimal point" method). That's a pretty cheap price...but it's probably going to cost him a lot more, especially if they find any photos
If you compare that to the average cost of living in Japan it's a bit closer to $300 in terms of spending power.
Either way it's a lot cheaper than I'd expect to have to pay anyone for sex work, much less something that blatantly illegal.
Oh, as for the age of consent thing that change just made it a national crime. Every prefecture in Japan had already raised the age of consent to 16 (or higher) well before last year. The only places it didn't apply were some remote military bases and IIRC the portion of Antarctica that Japan claims. Still a good move but it's not like Japanese pedos were just having sex with 13-year-olds without consequence before then.
I certainly hope so. Japan is notoriously light on punishment for pedophilia. They usually just give small fines for people found with child pornography, no matter the amount.
Do you think that makes it better just because the payoff was cheap? Or that the low monetary value degrades the victims such that you shouldn’t care? Either way, I’d argue that makes it all the more fucking disgusting and horrible.
If your whole argument is, “oh, but he got a bargain deal on all the corruption and prostitution!” Then you belong in jail right next to this scumbag.
I think their point was that if you don't know the conversion rate, you might think he was paying a lot, but he wasn't. The implication as to why that point was made, I speculate, is because cheap abuse is more despicable than better-paid abuse?
Romeo and Juliet Clauses apply starting at age 14 to 18 with some small local differences in regions, but an adult over 18 cannot date somebody under 18 without a pre-existing relationship. This has lead to the myth that consent starts at 14, which is false.
I’m not a troll, thanks. I merely have a very dim view of adults watching this stuff because it turns out that 90% are obese incel neck beards who turn violent.
I don't know about "defending pedophilia," but I would bring up "death of the author." There's no propaganda in the film, and horrible people can create incredible works of art. Art stands on its own own.
Wait was your name like that? It was recommended to me so many times when it came out that I started calling it your rope because of people saying the Japanese title when I didn't know what they were talking about.