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]
Haruhiko Arai | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 (age 76–77) |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
Career
editArai 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
editAs screenwriter
edit- 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
edit- Body and Soul (1997)
- It Feels So Good (2020)
- A Spoiling Rain (2023)[11]
Bibliography
edit- Arai, Haruhiko (2004). Shinario shinsei kigeki. Tokyo: Ōta Shuppan. ISBN 9784872339024.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "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.
External links
edit- Haruhiko Arai at IMDb
- Haruhiko Arai at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)