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'Your Name' Movie Producer Confesses To Have Paid Over 20 Underage Girls For Sexual Favors - Animehunch

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.

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'Your Name' Movie Producer Confesses To Have Paid Over 20 Underage Girls For Sexual Favors - Animehunch

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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.
- Thank goodness. I loved "Your Name" and hope for more films.
  
  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.
  
  Have you seen Suzume yet? It's truly wonderful.
- Please do not destroy and undermine these beautiful works of art
  They were visually stunning but the plot was mid at best.
  
  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
- Current conversion puts it at $192. But yeesh...
  Here's the kicker though... Japan JUST raised the age of consent from 13 to 16 LAST YEAR(!)
  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/japan-raises-the-age-of-sexual-consent-to-16-from-13-which-was-among-the-worlds-lowest
  
  Yes, but none of the local governments had it at 13, so this is purely symbolic
  
  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.
  
  But that makes it...legal, though, if the girl consented to the sex, right? Or is the prostitution part what makes it illegal?
- 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.
  
  Well, it’s like 90% of their entertainment industry.
- Divide by 150. It’s more like $200 these days due to a weakened Yen.
  
  I like moving the decimal place for its simplicity. I'll just keep the change! Lol
- You're right, she should have asked for at least 40k yen.
  
  $300 isn't much hush money, nor does it sound life-changing enough to want to sell one's body for at such an age.
- 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.
  
  What the fuck are you even on about. You just invented that argument and attributed it to otp, just to argue against it and be mad.
My name? What the fuck did i do!
- You know what you did 😤
  
  The only thing i've done thus far is kill time!
- Well for one thing you killed time itself, Atheon is livid.
  
  i did kill something i suppose that is true isnt it.
  
  Gotta get that Mytho somehow.
Man who makes movie with half naked anime girls who look like children is caught having sex with children? No way. Never.
- You seem to be confusing a heartfelt movie animated in Japan with the contents of your "homework" folder, champ.
  
  Sorry pal, not into women.
- Koichiro Ito was the producer, NOT the director who is famous for creating those movies
- 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.
  
  Koichiro Ito was the producer, NOT the director who is famous for creating those movies
  And no, Your Name is not like that at all
- You can go straight to hell bro
The comment section in that article is cancerous. Lots of defending pedophilia in there. Ugh I feel dirty after reading through it.
- 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.
  
  Was the dude the author? I thought he was just a director.

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