Hideo Sakaki , a prominent Japanese actor, film director and talent agency director, has been taken into custody after allegations of sexually assaulting a woman.
According to local reports, Sakaki is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s at an apartment in Tokyo’s Minato Ward in 2016.
Police suspect him to have abused his professional standing as the woman aspired to be an actress. In September 2022, the woman consulted Tokyo police through a lawyer before eventually deciding to file a formal complaint in June 2023.
She first met Sakaki in 2015 at an actors’ workshop. Sakaki has denied the allegations, calling them “false accusations.” The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has referred him to prosecutors.
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