Case name: “Director Hyoe Yamamoto Netflix False Video Case.”
Netflix is sued after “African Queens: Cleopatra.”
The amount of the lawsuit is 202.4 million yen as of October 17, 2023 (the amount of the lawsuit is increasing daily).
Director Hyoe Yamamoto directed and produced the video “Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department First Investigative Division−Lucy Blackman Case,” which Netflix is distributing and making available on the Internet.
The following was made clear at the trial:
There are no other "victims" other than the eight, and five of those eight have submitted a petition to the court for the withdrawal of charges, which has been accepted, and they have also reached a settlement with the three foreign hostesses whose whereabouts are still unknown.
In this video, a former Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department detective says that there are "several hundred victims," but there are no other "victims" other than the eight people involved in the eight cases indicted. It has also been revealed that the eight people involved in the indictment were engaged in prostitution, brought condoms, or brought clothes to change into when they went to the Zushi Marina room with the plaintiff.
Five of these eight people have not only submitted a ``written petition for withdrawal of indictment'' to the court after being indicted and had it accepted, but they have also already reached a settlement with the three foreign hostesses whose whereabouts are unknown.
The Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division initially planned to indict several other victims in addition to the ones mentioned above, but they found tape recordings of conversations in which women engaged in prostitution and women soliciting sex from them. Prosecutors were unable to bring charges because the tape recording of the conversation and the fact that the woman was smoking drugs that she had brought with her in the plaintiff’s room at Zushi Marina came to light.
In this case, the investigative agency systematically falsified, falsified, and destroyed evidence.
Many such acts were carried out. For example, after an indictment, a recorded conversation tape showing evidence of compensated dating (=prostitution) came to light, so the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division tried to falsify the evidence by changing the word "Enkou(compensated dating=prostitution)" to "Ginkou(Bank)." Both the scale and number of forgeries are the largest ever.
In Lucy case, the plaintiff was found completely innocent in the first trial, but in the second appeals court, he was found guilty except for the “-quasi-rape leading to death." It was revealed that Mitsuru Kobayashi (former Chief Justice of the Sendai High Court), who was the chief defense attorney at that time, had all of the forged experiment reports created by Detective Toshiaki Suzuki of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, including the “Transportation Experiment Results Report” using mannequins. (Detective Toshiaki Suzuki was subsequently found to have committed a crime and was given a disciplinary dismissal.)
The reason why the chief defense attorney Mitsuru Kobayashi (former Chief Justice of the Sendai High Court) agreed to use the forged transportation experiment report prepared by Detective Toshiaki Suzuki as evidence was that it was filed in 2008, when there was a need to speed up the trial proceedings. At that time, attorney Mitsuru Kobayashi met individually with a prosecutor he had been close to when he was the presiding judge, and the prosecutor he was close to requested that the trial proceeding be expedited. And he received a request from the prosecutor to expedite the trial proceedings. He consented to the adoption of the report as evidence because he thought there would be no repercussions.
Specifically, on October 14, 2000, two days after the plaintiff was arrested on October 12, 2000, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, with a team of about 30 forensics division staffs and two police dogs, used shovels and search sticks to raid the Blue Sea Aburatsubo beach. Even after searching several caves and digging up the ground, they were unable to find anything, including Lucy's body.
Since this was obvious and had been witnessed by many people, attorney Mitsuru Kobayashi thought that there would be no effect even if he agreed to it (less than four months later, Lucy's body was found in the same cave. be discovered).
However, the plaintiff was found guilty because the chief attorney consented to the forged transportation experiment report.
The report on the first cave search by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on October 14, 2000 is important evidence to prove innocence, so the plaintiff has repeatedly requested the disclosure of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department cave search report, etc., but the investigative agency has refused to disclose it. They stubbornly refuse and do not try to reveal the truth.
Tripartite consultations between judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney for this retrial request case have been held 25 times so far, and the court also had serious doubts about the main Carita case and conducted an expert opinion.
Director Hyoe Yamamoto had self-proclaimed journalist Shoji Takao (real name Masashi Takao, 77 years old) state false facts, had former detectives violate their confidentiality obligations under the Local Public Servant Law, and had him tell falsehoods that were contrary to the facts, created the video footage in question, and distributed and published it on Netflix.
In this case, the investigative agency systematically reported false facts to the media and falsified, falsified, and destroyed evidence. These will become clear in this lawsuit.
More than 99% of the videos confiscated from the plaintiffs were recorded videos of news, music, etc., and there were no "victims" other than those who were prosecuted. "400 people" is complete nonsense and a false fact. This is clear from the fact that compensation was paid along with apologizing advertisements in past defamation lawsuits(Evidence A6、Evidence A7).
The magazine and manga magazine publishers have apologized and paid compensation in past defamation lawsuits related to this case.
These false facts can only be posted once, but in the case of the defendant in this case, he continues to distribute and publish them through Netflix on the Internet, and his actions are extremely malicious.
There were no other "victims" other than those who were indicted, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division was planning to indict the plaintiff with several more victims, including the following.
However, as mentioned below, the prostitution act was revealed, or a tape recording of a conversation in which the woman asked for sex was discovered, so no charges could be brought.
Ota▇▇ A tape recording of a conversation in which she talked about engaging in prostitution was discovered(Evidence A9).
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department storage evidence number 0065 099 / 0065 100 / 0065 103
Odelia ▇▇ (foreign hostess) A tape recording of a conversation in which she requested sex was discovered(Evidence A10).
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department storage evidence number 51-59 59 / 51-49 50
Talia ▇▇(foreign hostess)A photo of her smoking heroin was discovered in Zushi Marina's room(Evidence A11).
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department storage evidence number H12-7315 0060 073 009 / 059 073
In the video distributed in this case, “Talia” is “Jesse from Australia.”
In this way, it was found that the woman engaged in prostitution, that the woman was soliciting sex, or that the woman herself was abusing drugs in the plaintiff`s room, as in this case, so no charges could be filed. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division used the cell phone numbers written by the plaintiff as a clue, forced the eight women to "cooperate," made them "victims," and brought him to prosecution. One woman even confessed to an attorney that she filed a complaint because a detective told her that if she filed a complaint, she could get a large sum of money from the plaintiff.
However, some of the women identified as "victims" in this case had recorded conversation tapes discovered after the plaintiff was indicted, that revealed that she had engaged in compensated dating (=prostitution), as in the case of Oka▇▇. , the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division falsely translated the word “Enkou(compensated dating=prostitution)” in the recorded conversation into the word “Ginkou(Bank),” and also made the plaintiff's speaking style extremely vulgar. They created false conversation transcripts and submitted them to the courts.
However, when these conversation tapes were officially translated by the Japan Recorders Association in the court, it was discovered that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department had intentionally falsified the translations and forged the evidence(Evidence A13).
Additionally, the alleged "victim" Ya▇▇▇ brought a condom with her when she visited the plaintiff's room, and Christine (a foreign hostess) brought a change of clothes for herself to wear, when the Women had gone to the plaintiff's Zushi Marina room. These facts were discovered after the indictment.
Director Hyoe Yamamoto makes all the women in this video look like "angels" and makes them "victims." However, the women were the kind of persons who had no problem interacting with Kazumasa Sagawa, who ate human flesh, so whom normal women would avoid out of fear. And they were also women who extorted money from him.
In any case, 5 of the 8 women labeled as “victims” have submitted “Application for Withdrawal of Charges” to the court and it has been accepted(Evidence A14), and for 3 foreign hostesses who are currently missing, settlements have been reached at an early stage.
Hundreds of millions of yen worth of precious metals and special banknotes (mainly new and old 10,000 yen bills, consecutively numbered, double-numbered bills, numbered 111111, 777777, 0000001, etc.) were seized from the plaintiff's home. They are left in a state of exploitation because they have not been returned.
Document 01: “Application form” for return of seized articles dated October 6, 2023 & “Supplementary explanation” dated February 5, 2010
In the tripartite consultation between judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney for this retrial request of the Lucy case, the court submitted three important pieces of evidence that revealed the truth, including the cave search report conducted on October 14, 2000, two days after the plaintiff was arrested on October 12, 2000. We have asked the public prosecutor to make voluntary disclosure regarding this point, but they continue to refuse to do so, and it is nothing short of abnormal for them to continue to refuse to disclose such fundamental and important evidence.
Document 02: “Letter of Intent for Requesting Retrial” dated March 22, 2012
Director Hyoe Yamamoto Netflix False Video Case.