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
Born1947 (age 76–77)
OccupationScreenwriter

Career

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Arai 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

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As screenwriter

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As director

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Bibliography

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  • Arai, Haruhiko (2004). Shinario shinsei kigeki. Tokyo: Ōta Shuppan. ISBN 9784872339024.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Arai Haruhiko" (in Japanese). Athenee Francais Cultural Center.
  2. ^ "Nippon Connection 2006". Shift. May 2006. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2013-03-17.
  3. ^ Its HP
  4. ^ "Mainichi Konkūru no Ayumi: 1984-nen". Mainichi Film Awards. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  5. ^ Schilling, Mark (14 April 2002). "KT - Review - Screen". Screen International.
  6. ^ Schilling, Mark (7 January 2004). "Vibrator - Review - Screen". Screen International.
  7. ^ Mes, Tom (22 November 2005). "Midnight Eye review: It's Only Talk". Midnighy Eye.
  8. ^ Mes, Tom (February 16, 2013). "Midnight Eye review: A Woman and War". Midnight Eye.
  9. ^ Fujii, Jinshi (February 22, 2013). "Blood and Transmigration - Shinji Aoyama's Tomogui (The Backwater)". Waseda Online. Yomiuri Shimbun.
  10. ^ "Sawai-ryū enshutsujitsu". Spiritual Movies. Kishū Izuchi. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  11. ^ "花腐し". eiga.com. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
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