Haruhiko Arai

Haruhiko Arai
Born 1947 (age 6768)
Occupation Screenwriter

Haruhiko Arai (荒井 晴彦 Arai Haruhiko, born 1947) is a Japanese screenwriter.[1] He is also publisher and editor of the Eiga Geijutsu magazine.[2]

Career

Arai won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film W's Tragedy in 1984.[3] He wrote the screenplay for Junji Sakamoto's KT (2001),[4] and also penned the screenplays for Ryuichi Hiroki's films Vibrator (2003) and It's Only Talk (2005).[5][6] In 2013, he wrote the scripts for Junichi Inoue's A Woman and War and Shinji Aoyama's The Backwater.[7][8]

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.[9]

Filmography

As screenwiter

As director

Bibliography

References

  1. "Arai Haruhiko" (in Japanese). Athenee Francais Cultural Center.
  2. "Nippon Connection 2006". Shift. May 2006.
  3. "Mainichi Konkūru no Ayumi: 1984-nen". Mainichi Film Awards. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  4. Schilling, Mark (14 April 2002). "KT - Review - Screen". Screen International.
  5. Schilling, Mark (7 January 2004). "Vibrator - Review - Screen". Screen International.
  6. Mes, Tom (22 November 2005). "Midnight Eye review: It's Only Talk". Midnighy Eye.
  7. Mes, Tom (February 16, 2013). "Midnight Eye review: A Woman and War". Midnight Eye.
  8. Fujii, Jinshi (February 22, 2013). "Blood and Transmigration - Shinji Aoyama's Tomogui (The Backwater)". Waseda Online. Yomiuri Shimbun.
  9. "Sawai-ryū enshutsujitsu". Spiritual Movies. Kishū Izuchi. Retrieved 4 October 2014.

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