Nobuyoshi Araki Movies

A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl....

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in...

A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture.

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

A high school girl is recruited by a photographer to be a model for a photo book. Thinking that she can make lots of money she agrees. He starts...

From a true incident that happened in 1960s Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it focuses on...

This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love.

Tokyo. A metropolis filled with sound, movement and culture. Through interviews with some of Tokyo's inhabitants, such as world-renowned photographer...

Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing...

A wordless man stages an unexplained hunger strike and the people surrounding him exploit his silence to further their own cause...

The late Fujio Akatsuka is revered by many Japanese artists and scholars for his developments to early comedy manga, but his contributions aren't...

A documentary exploring the history and influence of the alternative manga magazine, Garo, with various artist and director interviews.

This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.

A documentary about Morisaki Henrik, AKA Terayama Henrik, who became Terayama Shuji's adopted little brother after his death. Henrik continued...

Photography is diary... diary is life... in the end, the world and photography always end up alone, with each other.

A documentary that follows the life of photographer Daido Moriyama in the present, which has never been revealed before. Even though his charismatic...

Documentary on author, dissident and right-wing terrorist Misawa Chiren.

Former boxer Iwano, teamed up with Sada and Maru, who live in the same apartment building, makes his daily living as a punching bag for drunken...

A controversial documentary made for the 1995's edition of the "Rencontres d'Arles", focusing on the japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.