Haruhiko Arai


Haruhiko Arai is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the Eiga Geijutsu magazine and a professor of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.

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, and also penned the screenplays for Ryuichi Hiroki's films Vibrator and It's Only Talk. 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, has been called lesescenario by figures such as the director Shinichiro Sawai.

Filmography

As screenwriter

Woman with Red Hair Enrai W's Tragedy The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark Body and Soul KT Vibrator It's Only Talk Someday A Woman and War The Backwater Unlucky Woman's Blues

As director

Body and Soul It Feels So Good A Spoiling Rain