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Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).

Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.

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Sion Sono, Japanese Film Director, Accused of Sexual Harassment

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Sion Sono, the self-proclaimed maverick Japanese film director known for raunchy indie movies including “Love Exposure” and “Antiporno,” has been accused of sexual harassment by several actresses in Japan’s film industry.The accusations were published Monday by the Shukan Josei PRIME entertainment news and gossip site.

In a lengthy article, several actresses made accusations against Sono under the protection of anonymity. According to the piece, Sono, now aged 60, boasted of making sexual advances to “most of [his] leading ladies.” Sono’s alleged predatory practices have been linked to his acting workshops.Sono has yet to offer a public response to the allegations.

However, his upcoming acting workshop has been canceled. The Japanese film and TV industry has long harbored stories of sexual abuse and abuse of power by senior figures, but little of it often comes to the surface in a public fashion.

The #MeToo housecleaning that swept the English-speaking industries after the Harvey Weinstein scandal has not taken root in Japan, though some incidents are now coming to light.Sexual harassment allegations have recently been leveled against in-demand character actor Kinoshita Houka and director Sakaki Hideo, leading to the release of the latter’s two most recent films, “Confession” and “Harbor Light,” being canceled.Actor Yuki Matsuzaki referred to Sono’s history of sexual harassment and power harassment in a Twitter post last Sunday, pre-dating the Shukan Josei story.

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