Including Yutaka Ikejima, Yumi Yoshiyuki and Minoru Kunizawa, Araki is one of the four top pink film directors of Ōkura Productions (OP) at the turn of the millennium.
There he worked as assistant director on such films as Yukio Kitazawa's Wet Virgin: Obscene Assault (1985) and Kazuhiro Sano's first film as director, Capturing: Dirty Foreplay (監禁 ワイセツな前戯, Kankin: waisetsuna zengi) aka Last Bullet.
His performance in Parade (パレード) (1995) earned Araki a Best Actor, 2nd Place award at the Pink Grand Prix.
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.
[7] Additionally, he has had numerous films on the Pink Grand Prix's yearly Top-Ten list.