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

Year	Title	Type	Rating
2023	September 1923	Movie	8.1
2022	The Demon Over There	Movie	6.9
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	5.9
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