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

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professo ...

of the

Japan Institute of the Moving Image The , formerly known as the Yokohama Broadcasting Technical School, is a Japanese film school and university. It was founded in 1975 by film director Shohei Imamura. While a student at this school, director Takashi Miike was given his first film ...

Career

Arai won the

Mainichi Film Award The are a series of annual film awards, sponsored by Mainichi Shinbun (毎日新聞), one of the largest newspaper companies in Japan, since 1946. It is the first film festival in Japan. History The origins of the contest date back to 1935, ...

for best screenplay for the film '' W's Tragedy'' in 1984. He wrote the screenplay for

Junji Sakamoto is a Japanese film director. Career After working as a set assistant or assistant director under such filmmakers as Sogo Ishii and Kazuyuki Izutsu, he made his directorial debut in 1989 with '' Dotsuitarunen'' (earning the Directors Guild of Ja ...

'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 was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, film critic, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film '' Eureka''. Biography Shinji Aoyama was born in Kitakyushu, ...

's '' The Backwater''. His published but unfilmed scenario, , has been called lesescenario by figures such as the director Shinichiro Sawai.

Filmography

As screenwriter

* '' 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

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

Bibliography

References

External links

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