Arai Haruhiko
Director and screenwriter HARUHIKO Arai (1947, Japan) worked as an assistant director for Wakamatsu Production before making his screenwriting debut with Shinjuku, Messy District: I’ll Be There (1977), directed by CHÛSEI Sone. He established his reputation in Japan and worldwide with works such as W’s Tragedy (1984), Flakes of Snow (1985), and Someday (2011). For the latter Haruhiko received the Screenplay of the Year Award by the Japan Academy Film Prize. Body and Soul (1997) was his directorial debut. A Spoiling Rain (2023), IFFR 2024 selection, is his forth feature film.
Filmography
Mi mo Kokoro mo/Body and Soul (1997), Kono Kuni no Sora/When I Was Most Beautiful (2015), Kakô no Futari/It Feels So Good (2019), Hanakutashi/A Spoiling Rain (2023)
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Arai Haruhiko at IFFR
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It’s Only Talk
By the maker of Vibrator. And with the actress from Vibrator. A light-hearted film about an independent woman with a less than light-hearted proble
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A Spoiling Rain
A melancholy picture of entangled romantic destinies set against Japan’s waning adult film industry.
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Vibrator
Love at first sight between a writer and a trucker leads to a voyage of (self) discovery. Hiroki, an expert in erotic fantasies, makes a modestly d
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Kamu onna
Opposite of the thriller ‘Fatal Attraction’, released around the same time: this is a household drama in which the husband comes off wo
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Undulant Fever
A female student falls for a senior, but the senior not really for her. He is willing to go to bed with her, but doesn’t feel love. The couple emba
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Akai kami no onna
Redhead woman leads the men astray. She is not quite what she seems. It is regarded as one of the strongest Kumashiro films.
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Minazuki
A computer nerd, Suwa (40), is suddenly deserted by his wife. Her younger brother Akira offers to help finding her, but brings Suwa into contact wi