Haruhiko Arai Explained

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,, 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

• Book: Arai. Haruhiko. Shinario shinsei kigeki. 2004. Ōta Shuppan. Tokyo. 9784872339024.

See also

• Kazuo Kasahara

Notes and References

1. Web site: Arai Haruhiko. Athenee Francais Cultural Center. Japanese.
2. Web site: Nippon Connection 2006. Shift. May 2006. 2013-03-17. 2018-04-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20180418225826/http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2006/05/nippon_connection_2006_2.html. dead.
3. http://www.eiga.ac.jp/course/professor/arai.html Its HP
4. Web site: Mainichi Konkūru no Ayumi: 1984-nen. Mainichi Film Awards. 4 October 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110907135812/http://www.japan-movie.net/about/history39.html. 7 September 2011.
5. Web site: KT - Review - Screen. Screen International. Mark. Schilling. 14 April 2002.
6. Web site: Vibrator - Review - Screen. Screen International. Mark. Schilling. 7 January 2004.
7. Web site: Midnight Eye review: It's Only Talk. Midnighy Eye. Tom. Mes. 22 November 2005.
8. Web site: Midnight Eye review: A Woman and War. Midnight Eye. Tom. Mes. February 16, 2013.
9. Web site: Blood and Transmigration - Shinji Aoyama's Tomogui (The Backwater). Yomiuri Shimbun. Waseda Online. Jinshi. Fujii. February 22, 2013.
10. Web site: Sawai-ryū enshutsujitsu. Spiritual Movies. Kishū Izuchi. 4 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034752/http://spiritualmovies.lomo.jp/dialogue_sawai.html. 4 March 2016. dead.
11. Web site: 花腐し. April 17, 2023. eiga.com.