Arai Haruhiko

  • Name: Arai Haruhiko
  • Native name: 荒井晴彦
  • Also Known as: あらい はるひこ
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: January 26, 1947
  • Age: 77
Haruhiko Arai 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.

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. Edit Biography
Screenwriter
Year Title Type Rating
2023 September 1923
Movie
8.1
2022 The Demon Over There
Movie
0.0
2017 Dear Etranger
Movie
7.4
2015 Kabukicho Love Hotel
Movie
7.0
2014 Undulant Fever
Movie
5.9
2014 Unlucky Woman's Blues
Movie
7.0
2013 The Backwater
Movie
7.0
2013 A Woman and War
Movie
6.1
2013 Sodom no Ringo
Drama
6.3
2011 Shinya Shokudo 2
Drama
8.3
2011 Ooshikamura Soudouki
Movie
6.6
2006 Diary of Beloved Wife: White Room
Movie
5.7
2005 It's Only Talk
Movie
6.6
2003 Vibrator
Movie
6.7
2002 KT
Movie
4.0
1998 East Side Waltz: Etsuraku no Sono
Movie
0.0
1998 Kizuna
Movie
5.5
1996 Thanks
Movie
1.0
1993 The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Movie
7.7
1992 Survey on Common Love
Movie
0.0
1990 Yuwaku
Drama
8.0
1988 Love Bites Back
Movie
5.0
1987 Koibitotachi no Jikoku
Movie
6.1
1987 Captured Mother and Daughter: She Beast
Movie
5.0
1986 Bed-In
Movie
6.0
1984 Tragedy of W
Movie
7.6
1984 Cursed Village in Yudono Mountains
Movie
0.0
1983 Double Bed
Movie
5.0
1983 Modori River
Movie
5.0
1983 Zoom Up: Graduation Photos
Movie
6.0
1982 Cabaret Diary
Movie
2.0
1981 Rolling on the Road
Movie
5.0
1981 Hitonatsu No Taiken: Aoi Sangosho
Movie
0.0
1980 Pleasure School: Forbidden Play
Movie
2.0
1980 Hard Scandal: Sex Drifter
Movie
5.5
1979 Heaven Sent
Movie
8.0
1979 Mr. Dilemma Man: Lunatic for Lust
Movie
0.0
1979 Ejiki
Movie
2.0
1979 Woman With Red Hair
Movie
4.6
1977 Shinjuku, Messy District: I'll Be There
Movie
7.0
1977 Discontinuous Murder
Movie
2.0
1974 Beast of Lust
Movie
0.0
1974 Wet Dice
Movie
0.0
1971 Secret Flower
Movie
8.0
Screenwriter & Director
Year Title Type Rating
2023 A Spoiling Rain
Movie
6.5
2019 Kakou no Futari
Movie
7.0
2015 This Country's Sky
Movie
6.5
1997 Body and Soul
Movie
6.0
Assistant Director
Year Title Type Rating
1971 Gushing Prayer: A 15-Year-Old Prostitute
Movie
5.8
Movie
Year Title Role Rating
2001 Sadistic and Masochistic
Japanese Movie, 2001,
[Himself] (Support Role)
[Himself]
Support Role
4.0
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  • Native name: 荒井晴彦
  • Also Known as: あらい はるひこ
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: January 26, 1947
  • Age: 77

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