is a Japanese

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. He is also a publisher and an editor of the ''Eiga Geijutsu'' magazine and a

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of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.

Career

Arai won the

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for best screenplay for the film ''

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'' in 1984. He wrote the screenplay for

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's '' KT'' (2001), and also penned the screenplays for Ryuichi Hiroki's films '' Vibrator'' (2003) and ''

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'' (2005). In 2013, he wrote the scripts for Junichi Inoue's ''A Woman and War'' and

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's ''

The Backwater is a 2013 Japanese drama film directed by Shinji Aoyama, starring Masaki Suda. It is based on the Akutagawa Prize-winning novel by Shinya Tanaka and adapted by Haruhiko Arai. The film won the Best Director award from the Swiss critics' federation ...

''. His published but unfilmed scenario, , has been called

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by figures such as the director

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Filmography

As screenwriter

* ''

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'' (1979) * ''

Enrai or ''Distant Thunder'' is a 1981 Japanese film adaptation of Wahei Tatematsu's novel of the same name, directed by Kichitaro Negishi. Synopsis ''Enrai'' is a low-key study of a farmer, Mitsuo Wada, in 1980s Japan when modernization and urbaniza ...

'' (1981) * ''

'' (1984) * '' The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark'' (1993) * ''Body and Soul'' (1997) * '' KT'' (2002) * '' Vibrator'' (2003) * ''

'' (2005) * '' Someday'' (2011) * ''A Woman and War'' (2013) * ''

'' (2013) * ''Unlucky Woman's Blues'' (2014) * ''

Kabukicho Love Hotel is a 2014 Japanese drama film directed by Ryūichi Hiroki, starring Shota Sometani and Atsuko Maeda. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot Having lost his ...

'' (2014)

As director

* ''Body and Soul'' (1997) * ''It Feels So Good'' (2020)

Bibliography

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Arai, Haruhiko Japanese screenwriters Living people 1947 births Place of birth missing (living people)