Haruhiko Arai
Writer and director.
Works
A Spoiling Rain
The story is about a film director, Kutani, who lives in the dying pink film industry, and an aspiring screenwriter, Iseki, and their loved one, Shoko, whose dream of a film she has clung to begins to crumble, and how their lives intersect.
Release Date: 2023-11-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
September 1923
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
Release Date: 2023-09-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 8
Tenjō no hana
Tatsuji Miyoshi regards Sakutaro Hagiwara as his teacher. Feelings run deeper since he loves Sakutaro’s youngest sister, Keiko, but she rejects him. A decade later and as the Pacific War rages, Tatsuji finds out that Keiko is recently widowed and he divorces his wife and leaves his children and marries Keiko. They honeymoon quietly Echizen Mikuni but their personalities don’t match as Tatsuji is unable to keep up with the more uninhibited Keiko.
Release Date: 2022-12-31
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
2 Women
Modeled on Setouchi Jakucho, Inoue Mitsuharu, and his wife, 2 women depicts the special relationship between a man and two women, based on the novel by Inoue Areno, the eldest daughter of Inoue.
Release Date: 2022-11-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
It Feels So Good
When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there in order to attend her wedding. Naoko surprises him by proposing that they have sex again. The one night stand is the new beginning.
Release Date: 2019-08-23
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 35
Dear Etranger
Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then becomes pregnant. Afterwards, things begin to change among the family members.
Release Date: 2017-08-26
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 19
This Country’s Sky
Set in Tokyo, Japan near the end of World War II. 19-year-old Satoko (Fumi Nikaido) lives with her mother (Youki Kudoh) and her aunt. The war is turning more grave. Even though Satoko is near the age to get married, she can't even think of marriage due to the unstable situation. Satoko then begins to communicate with her neighbor, Ichikawa (Hiroki Hasegawa). He has avoided military service due to failing his physical test. As Satoko communicates with Ichikawa, she begins to awake as a woman.
Release Date: 2015-08-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
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 embark on a painful yet passionate experiment. Based on the legendary book by Kei Nakazawa.
Release Date: 2014-09-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 11
Kabukicho Love Hotel
This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.
Release Date: 2014-09-07
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 38
Unlucky Woman's Blues
The lives and loves of several people all intersect in the Golden Gai, a labyrinth of alleys and bars located in central Tokyo.
Release Date: 2014-07-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Backwater
Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.
Release Date: 2013-09-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 20
The War and a Woman
Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in bar and is a former prostitute. Many years ago, her father sold her to a brothel due to the family's severe financial hardships. The writer and the woman then agree to live as husband and wife until the war ends. The woman doesn't feel sexual pleasures due to her past, while the man lusts for the woman's body. Meanwhile, Ohira (Jun Murakami) fought for Japan in China. He participated in unconscionable acts against civilians in the name of war. He returns to Japan with only one arm. Ohira then begins to prey on innocent women.
Release Date: 2013-04-27
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 5
Apple of Sodom
After her ex-boyfriend dies, an editor becomes obsessed with his fiancée, a woman accused of swindling multiple men out of money before killing them.
Release Date: 2013-03-23
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 2
Someday
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the performance when his estranged wife and former best friend arrive back in town...
Release Date: 2011-07-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Partners
19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding housewives and students.) Tsuyoshi Osanai enters a school for guide dog trainers. After 2 years of training, Tsuyoshi becomes an assistant trainer. His first dog to train is Chie.
Release Date: 2010-11-06
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
It's Only Talk
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.
Release Date: 2006-06-10
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 12
Seicho Matsumoto Special: Fingers
Fukue Yumiko is a struggling actress who isn't afraid to lie, cheat, or exploit her own sexuality if it means her own success. But as she becomes a big star, one TV reporter decides that it's time someone uncovered her dark past and reveal just how far she was prepared to go for her own fame.
Release Date: 2006-02-21
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 4
Vibrator
Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks excessively. On Valentine's Day, she meets truck driver Takatoshi. She joins him on a journey in his bumpy and shaky truck - which vibrates in tune with her uneasy soul.
Release Date: 2003-12-06
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 26
KT
This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.
Release Date: 2002-05-03
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2
Sadistic and Masochistic
Documentary on Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, with a heavy focus on prolific director Masaru Konuma.
Release Date: 2001-01-27
Vote Count: 1
Naughty Office Lady: Don't Pull Out Until Morning
A couple of men and women who look happy. However, each of them was living another life that the other did not know. Their words, which at times seem to betray their own feelings, crystallize into a dry ending.
Release Date: 2000-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Co-Writer
Vote Count: 1
Minazuki
Akira's wife walks out on him, leaving him to confide in his gangster brother-in-law. Using only a cryptic note as a clue the two brothers go on a road trip to find his wife. After a series of violent encounters with strangers, Akira meets a prostitute. The pair start a relationship. After Akira finds his wife, he questions whether he still wants to be with her.
Release Date: 1999-10-23
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 10
Bonds
Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father. His life begins to unravel when a journalist following him takes an interest in the wife of a boyhood chum, and the wife of another close friend takes an interest in Ise. A couple of murders later, Ise/Haga goes on the run and also sets out for revenge.
Release Date: 1998-06-06
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4
East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights
Fukano, an elderly novelist who grew up in the mountains of Tokyo, met a young woman, Kana, for the first time in Fukagawa. Overcoming the age difference, they are strongly attracted to each other. However, in Fukano, in addition to the problem of downtown and uptown, there was a deep “river” that separated women and men. However, Kana, on the other hand, easily crossed that "river" due to her sexual love with Fukano. "I never thought I'd live west of the Sumida River," Kana said. However, behind this lies the conspiracy of Fukano's old lover, Junko. The two get married, but Kana's behavior is gradually haunted by a mystery, and the shadow of her detective and old man flickers. The core of the mystery involved a strange sex shop
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Body and Soul
Yoshihiko now lives with a couple of old friends, a married couple, Ryosuke and Aya. They share a past in several senses. It was Ryosuke who walked off with Yoshihiko’s girlfriend Aya. In doing so, he broke up with his own girlfriend, Reiko. Now they are all back together again and old feelings begin to surface.
Release Date: 1997-10-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Arigatou
Erotic drama based on the comic by Naoki Yamamoto.
Release Date: 1996-07-20
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Ｆ．ヘルス嬢日記
Eisuke, an electrician, falls in love at first sight with a health lady named Louise who he meets at a health shop where he is dispatched for work. After visiting several times, it turns out that they have similar pasts. One day Louise disappears...
Release Date: 1996-04-12
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
Release Date: 1993-10-08
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Investigation of a Typical Love
The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't take on anything other than background checks for marriage and looking for cats. One day, a request for a job that belongs to him comes in. It is from Masako, a married woman who suspects her husband of having an affair.
Release Date: 1992-03-21
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Dioxin from Fish!
A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.
Release Date: 1992-02-22
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Revolver
When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who decides to use it on a yakuza who beat him recently. Now the police officer is hot on the student’s trail, and he’s determined to prevent the gun from going off.
Release Date: 1988-10-22
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3
Love Bites Back
Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter. Outwardly, his family seems really happy, but in reality Yuichi enjoys sex with everyone but his wife Chikako. One day, he gets a phone call from a woman named Sanae, an old elementary school classmate of his.
Release Date: 1988-07-01
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Rinbu
Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and her boyfriend go to a pool bar where she is served a free cocktail drink courtesy of a man who wants to date her. Another guy challenges her boyfriend to a game with the girlfriend being the prize. Three men are fighting over the young woman and a winner takes the girl. It ends up as four guys and the woman in a hotel room.
Release Date: 1988-01-09
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Machi nureta onna
A woman living alone is visited by her ex-husband. At the same time a young couple who are about to break up get trapped in the town as public transport is cut off.
Release Date: 1987-12-19
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3
Captured Mother and Daughter: She Beast
After watching her friend fall from a building a depressed high school girl runs away from home. When she is picked up by a nice guy on a phone date she realizes too late that he has plans to use her for his own ends.
Release Date: 1987-02-28
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4
Bed-In
Without knowing their names a man and woman have sex. Afterwards they introduce themselves and begin an affair. The woman feels empty without a man. The man is married with a child but he needs more than what his wife can provide.
Release Date: 1986-12-20
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Flakes of Snow
A troubled architect weaves his way through numerous romantic situations in a search for true love and contentment.
Release Date: 1985-09-14
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
The Tragedy of “W”
A young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she agrees to stand-in for a famous star whose rich patron died in her arms one night. The real-life drama gradually comes to mirror the story of the play being performed by her.
Release Date: 1984-12-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 23
Cursed Village in Yudono Mountains
Awaji, the president of a famous food company, is found murdered in a locked bathroom. with mummified human hands found all over the body. Taki, a Young bonze, begins to privately investigate.
Release Date: 1984-05-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Double Bed
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.
Release Date: 1983-08-05
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4
Modori River
The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.
Release Date: 1983-04-16
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Zoom Up: Graduation Photo
For a little extra money a college student agrees to pose as a nude model for a magazine. But she finds out too late that the magazine is a pornographic one. When it gets published it causes problems with her boyfriend who happens to see it. She is persuaded into do a few more sessions and each time the setups becomes more extreme. She begins to lose herself in heat of passion and doesn’t notice the camera is shooting when the action turns into the real thing.
Release Date: 1983-03-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2
Time and Tide
An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.
Release Date: 1983-03-18
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Cabaret Diary
The story of lovers in "Miss Nippon" cabaret in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, where a strict, almost martial, code is followed among employees to bring the business to the top. Workers must follow the rules and a "no relations between workers" policy that's tightly enforced.
Release Date: 1982-06-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Rolling on the Road
George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker. His life becomes even more of a mess when the nurse he raped moves in with them.
Release Date: 1981-10-23
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 6
Distant Thunder
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
Release Date: 1981-10-23
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 11
Blue Lagoon: A Summer Experience
With summer vacation, Chiaki, a high school girl, is just passing each day without getting along well with her boyfriend, Masahiko and her first experience.
Release Date: 1981-07-24
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Pleasure Campus: Secret Games
A high school girl has a very very bad day. She is disciplined for disrupting class and sent to clean lab equipment. Feeling horny she uses a phallic looking test tube to pleasure herself. Unfortunately a passing teacher spots her and proceeds to further discipline her with additional equipment. She suffers as a parade of teachers dish out a variety of humiliations one after another. Finally escaping to home she finds her trials are not over as her parents decide to give her a rather perverse sexual education.
Release Date: 1980-11-21
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4
Hard Scandal: Sex Drifter
A junior high school student spends his nights hanging out at the disco. At home his parents are more interested in swapping partners with willing couples than spending time with their son. One evening, while shoplifting, a young woman gives him a hand and helps him pull off the snatch. Mesmerized by the woman he follows her to where she lives. After he makes a fumbled attempt at raping her she lets him stay and they spend a lazy summer together.
Release Date: 1980-10-04
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3
Joshidaisei: Kairaku Ayame-ryô
A Nikkatsu Roman Porno movie.
Release Date: 1980-05-31
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Rape Ceremony
In a rural town, ex-members of a motorcycle gang become sporadic victims of vigilante attacks. A group of high school boys are responsible for the various assaults because they're upset that the motorcycle gang had disbanded. The boys idolized the rebel gang and harbored dreams of joining them after graduation. A female student happens to see one of the assaults and is threatened by the high school thugs. But she turns out to tougher than she looks.
Release Date: 1980-02-16
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2
Heaven Sent
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a six-year-old child at their door, claiming that Shinsaku—or four other men—is the child's father! Sayoko and Shinsaku set out on a journey to find the real father.
Release Date: 1979-12-28
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 4
Koichiro Uno's Moist and Steamy
Release Date: 1979-11-10
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman
A meek salaryman who gets no respect at home and is belittled at work gets inspiration from Superman and somehow becomes a strangely suited, hugely endowed, masked sexual avenger.
Release Date: 1979-10-06
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82
Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few nights later her target is found dead outside of his 30 floor office building. With an apparent suicide note as evidence, local police conclude the case as a suicide. Mika’s assignment may have ended in failure, but her mission has just begun...
Release Date: 1979-08-18
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3
Prey
A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful sound of reggae that he encountered during his stay in the U.S. However, his friends lost their old energy and were busy chasing only the songs that would sell, and did not pay attention to reggae. Eventually, the lonely and violent rock singer turns to mass indiscriminate murder out of repugnance to the blurred times and humanity.
Release Date: 1979-06-23
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
The Woman with Red Hair
Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.
Release Date: 1979-02-17
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 15
Bathhouse 911: Jellyfish Bliss
A young woman and her boyfriend are recruited to work in a bathhouse but find their relationship falling apart when she falls for a dangerous gangster.
Release Date: 1978-11-18
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2
Semi-document: Shojo chitai
Release Date: 1977-10-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Hell's Angels: Crimson Roar
After a fight with a local girl gang, Yoko serves time in prison. After her release the world she once knew has changed. When she is drugged and raped by a local yakuza she seeks revenge…
Release Date: 1977-10-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Shinjuku Midare Machi: Ikumade Matte
The story of a group of artistic people centred around a bar in Shinjuku.
Release Date: 1977-09-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 4
Case of the Disjointed Murder
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...
Release Date: 1977-03-14
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Cruel Bondage Picture Legend
It was a tumultuous time. In the early Meiji period, there was the first photographer in Japan who lived a heroic life. What fascinated him with photography was a photograph of a naked woman.
Release Date: 1976-08-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Wet Dice
Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her. For the past three years, Kayo has been in a relationship with Murakami, a city councilman. One day, a young man and woman, Jun and Yoko, come to town. They are planning to stow away somewhere, but no one will take them in. Exhausted, they happen to come to Kayo's bar. Eventually, Kayo's past and the man she used to be with are revealed, and Jun and Yoko's desperate actions lead to the story's conclusion...
Release Date: 1974-09-11
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4
Gushing Prayer
High-school student Yasuko, indulges in sex to liberate herself from a corrupt adult society. Driven by the encouragement of her peers to feel what it is like to be a prostitute, Yasuko sets out an odyssey of self-exploration in search of complete satiation.
Release Date: 1971-08-04
Department: Directing
Job: Co-Director
Vote Count: 22
Secret Flower
A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach...
Release Date: 1971-01-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3