''Arakimentari'' is a 2004 American film directed by Travis Klose. It is a

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

about acclaimed and controversial Japanese

photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographers As in other ...

Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist professionally known by the mononym . Known primarily for photography that blends eroticism and bondage in a fine art context, he has published over 500 books.The number depends on such things ...

. The film looks at Araki's personal life as well as his art.

Cast

as himself * Björk as herself *

Richard Kern Richard Kern (born 1954) is an American underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to prominence as part of the cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films like ...

as himself *

Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese comedian, television presenter, actor, filmmaker, and author. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host. With th ...

as himself

External links

* * ;Reviews
Review of Arakimentari at Channel 4 Film

Review of UK Region 0 DVD at Digital Lard
2004 films American documentary films Japanese art Documentary films about photographers Documentary films about Japan 2004 documentary films 2000s English-language films 2000s American films {{Japan-art-stub