Tarō Araki


Tarō Araki is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. Including Yutaka Ikejima, Yumi Yoshiyuki and Minoru Kunizawa, Araki is one of the four top pink film directors of Ōkura Productions at the turn of the millennium.

Life and career

Tarō Araki first entered the film industry as an extra in 1981. He began his behind-the-camera work through Kokuei studio in 1985. There he worked as assistant director on such films as Yukio Kitazawa's Wet Virgin: Obscene Assault and Kazuhiro Sano's first film as director, Capturing: Dirty Foreplay aka Last Bullet. Araki often appears as an actor in his films as well as in films by other directors. His performance in Parade earned Araki a Best Actor, 2nd Place award at the Pink Grand Prix.
Araki's directorial debut was with in 1996. His approach to the pink film is different from that of many of the more prominent directors of the last two decades such as the groups known as the "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" and "Seven Lucky Gods of Pink". Araki has a more populist impulse to his filmmaking, and is a vocal opponent of making a film to please one's self rather than the audience. He intentionally tries to please the traditional theatrical pink film audience, particularly those outside the large cities, rather than the more intellectual critics and fans who are represented by P*G magazine and the Pink Grand Prix ceremony. Nevertheless, Araki has proven himself a successful director at the Pink Grand Prix. Besides the acting and Best New Director awards, Araki's film Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay was chosen as Best Film, and his Sister-in-Law's Wet Thighs earned Araki an award for Best Director. Additionally, he has had numerous films on the Pink Grand Prix's yearly Top-Ten list.

Partial filmography

Pink Grand Prix

  • 2000 1st place: Sad and Painful Search: Office Lady Essay
  • 2001 4th place: Sister-in-Law's Wet Thighs
  • 2001 Honorable mention: Immoral First Love: Loving from the Nipples
  • 2002 7th place: Molester's Bus 2: Heat of the Over Thirty
  • 2002 10th place: Older Woman: Hakata Beauty's Shyness
  • 2003 6th place: Beautiful Breast Violence: Indecent Nude
  • 2003 8th place: The Girl Next Door: Taste of Short Steps
  • 2004 2nd place: Housekeeper with Beautiful Skin: Made Wet with Finger Torture
  • 2008 7th place:

Pinky Ribbon Awards

  • 2004 Gold prize: Housekeeper with Beautiful Skin: Made Wet with Finger Torture
  • 2004 Pearl prize: Shokudō no o neesan inran ni jimi jiru
  • 2005 Silver prize: ''Huge Tits G-Cup: Rapturous Valley''

English

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Japanese

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