Arakimentari (18)
- Consumer Advice: Contains very strong sexual images and nudity
- Run time: 1 hour 15 mins
- Language: Japanese
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 5th August 2005
- Starring: Araki, Bjork
- Directed by: Travis Klose
- Distributor: Tartan Video
Plot Synopsis
Some have protested his work.
Others have deemed his photographs amongst the greatest ever taken.
Boasting 300 books ranging from erotic bondage imagery to landscapes to celebrity portraits, and a notorious claim to have slept with every female subject, Nobuyoshi Araki reigns as Japan’s most notorious, controversial photographer.
First-time director Travis Klose focuses on Araki’s life and the insanely compulsive method behind his work. Known for blurring the line between art and pornography, Araki stunned and shocked his country by single-handedly breaking the ban on photographing pubic hair in Japan. Accompanied by interviews with a few of Araki’s subjects—actor Takeshi Kitano, Richard Kern and singer Bjork—the film probes Araki’s photos as well as the eccentric mind that conceived them.