Recently, the Japanese media broke the news that the well-known director Yuan Ziwen sexually assaulted the actress. At present, a number of actresses have reported Yuan Ziwen's sexual assault, accusing him of using his status as a director to ask for a relationship with an actress, and has also been exposed to collecting money from interviewed actors to allow them to make their own films.
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Yuan Ziwen has directed many popular works such as "Exposure of Love" and "Cold Tropical Fish", and has a high status in Japan, and there are many actresses who want to star in his works. Yuan Ziwen once said to them very unconcernedly: "If you have a relationship with me, you will have a job", and even boasted: basically the actresses who starred in her movies have been involved.
On the 6th, Yuan Ziwen's office published his handwritten apology letter, Yuan Ziwen said that he lacked the consciousness of being a director, nor did he consider the people around him, and would re-examine this in the future, but he said that some of the content of the recent news was inconsistent with the facts and legal measures would be taken.
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Recently, there have been frequent sexual scandals in the Japanese film industry. In mid-March, Weekly Wenchun published reports about the director's hero sexually assaulting the actress, which was denounced by 9 people, and his films "Honeymoon" and "Double Flashing Lights" were suspended.
On the 23rd, Wen Chun once again broke out that the well-known supporting actor Kinoshita Kunijia, who had cooperated with Yu many times and had a lot of friendship, sexually assaulted the actress, and the two actresses testified that they were sexually assaulted by Kinoshita. At present, Kinoshita has been fired from the firm and announced that it will cease to operate indefinitely.
Left: Hideo Sakaki, Right: Kunie Kinoshita geitopi.com;
In response to this series of incidents of sexual abuse of actors by using their powers, six Japanese directors, including Hirokazu Kore-eda, Atsuhiko Suwa, Takako Misaki Tate, Miwa Nishikawa, Koji Fukada and Jun Tsubashi, issued a joint statement opposing the use of power to inflict harm, saying: "I hope that the victims will not be harmed again, and I hope that those who are in an authoritative position in the work of film directors can carefully check the scene for similar problems and create a safe space for all actors and crew." ”
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