Nobuyoshi Araki is Japan's best-known photographer and its most controversial cultural export. Documenting Tokyo he captures its obscene energy and inhuman emptiness in the sex clubs and entertainment district, crowded streets, buildings and skies. His work is infused with an intense sexuality.
Renowned for clashing with the authorities, in 1988 police ordered the removal from sale the magazine Shashin Jidai, which featured Araki's photographs; obscenity charges were levelled against the artist during a 1992 exhibition and 1993 saw the arrest of a gallery curator who dared to display Araki's graphic nudes. One gets the sense that Araki is a rebel bucking the system.
Araki has been working as a photographer since the 1960s and has published over 200 books and exhibited extensively worldwide, including Tokyo, London, and Paris.
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High school girl’s diary
Japanese title: Jokosei Nise Nikki
Year: 1981
Director: Nobuyoshi Araki
Actors: Rika Arai, Yoko Morimura
Notes: Directed by world-famous japanese erotic photographer Araki. Highschool coed’s dream of being a
centerfold model comes true.
A somewhat average pinku, it stands above the crowd having been directed by celeb
erotic photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. A curiosity
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