Haruhiko Arai

Japanese screenwriter

Haruhiko Arai

Born	1947 (age 76–77)
Occupation	Screenwriter

Haruhiko Arai (荒井晴彦, Arai Haruhiko, born 1947) is a Japanese screenwriter.^[1] He is also a publisher and an editor of the Eiga Geijutsu magazine^[2] and a professor of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.^[3]

Career

Arai won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film W's Tragedy in 1984.^[4] He wrote the screenplay for Junji Sakamoto's KT (2001),^[5] and also penned the screenplays for Ryuichi Hiroki's films Vibrator (2003) and It's Only Talk (2005).^[6]^[7] In 2013, he wrote the scripts for Junichi Inoue's A Woman and War and Shinji Aoyama's The Backwater.^[8]^[9]

His published but unfilmed scenario, Divine Comedy (神聖喜劇, Shinsei kigeki), has been called lesescenario by figures such as the director Shinichiro Sawai.^[10]

Filmography

As screenwriter

Woman with Red Hair (1979)
Enrai (1981)
W's Tragedy (1984)
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark (1993)
Body and Soul (1997)
KT (2002)
Vibrator (2003)
It's Only Talk (2005)
Someday (2011)
A Woman and War (2013)
The Backwater (2013)
Unlucky Woman's Blues (2014)
Kabukicho Love Hotel (2014)

As director

Body and Soul (1997)
It Feels So Good (2020)
A Spoiling Rain (2023)^[11]

Bibliography

Arai, Haruhiko (2004). Shinario shinsei kigeki. Tokyo: Ōta Shuppan. ISBN 9784872339024.

References

^ "Arai Haruhiko" (in Japanese). Athenee Francais Cultural Center.
^ "Nippon Connection 2006". Shift. May 2006. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2013-03-17.
^ Its HP
^ "Mainichi Konkūru no Ayumi: 1984-nen". Mainichi Film Awards. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
^ Schilling, Mark (14 April 2002). "KT - Review - Screen". Screen International.
^ Schilling, Mark (7 January 2004). "Vibrator - Review - Screen". Screen International.
^ Mes, Tom (22 November 2005). "Midnight Eye review: It's Only Talk". Midnighy Eye.
^ Mes, Tom (February 16, 2013). "Midnight Eye review: A Woman and War". Midnight Eye.
^ Fujii, Jinshi (February 22, 2013). "Blood and Transmigration - Shinji Aoyama's Tomogui (The Backwater)". Waseda Online. Yomiuri Shimbun.
^ "Sawai-ryū enshutsujitsu". Spiritual Movies. Kishū Izuchi. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
^ "花腐し". eiga.com. Retrieved April 17, 2023.