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Occupation
  
Screenwriter

Name
  
Haruhiko Arai

Role
  
Screenwriter



Nominations
  
Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year

Movies
  
The Backwater, The War and a Woman, W's Tragedy, KT, Vibrator

Similar People
  
Ryuichi Hiroki, Hiroshi Ando, Shinji Aoyama, Kichitaro Negishi, Tatsumi Kumashiro

Kakô no futari theatrical trailer - Haruhiko Arai-directed R18+ movie


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

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Career

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

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.

As screenwiter

  • Woman with Red Hair (1979)
  • 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)
  • References

    Haruhiko Arai Wikipedia