Arakimentari

Nobuyoshi Araki, variously described as the most important photographer in contemporary Japan and a smutty-minded voyeur with a camera, is profiled in American first-time filmmaker Travis Klose's evenhanded documentary. A cross between Robert Mapplethorpe and Russ Meyer, Araki has spent much of his career obliterating the line between artistic nudes and dirty pictures. A balding, potbellied, middle-aged leprechaun with glasses, a bristling mustache and a fondness for suspenders and T-shirts bearing a caricature of himself as a grinning cat, Araki is famous (some would say infamous) for his vast corpus of images — some shot in his studio, others captured on the fly in...