In a four-decade career, Haruhiko Arai has become an acclaimed scriptwriter with credits that include ¡°Vibrator¡± (2003), ¡°It¡¯s Only Talk¡± (2005) and ¡°Kabukicho Love Hotel¡± (2014), three of the best films by his frequent collaborator, the director Ryuichi Hiroki.
Arai also edits and publishes ¡°Eiga Geijutsu,¡± a film magazine notorious for its annual ¡°Best Ten¡± and ¡°Worst Ten¡± polls, with the latter attracting more attention for its contrarian picks, including films by Naomi Kawase, Hirokazu Kore-eda and other internationally noted Japanese auteurs.
Last year Arai was played by Kisetsu Fujiwara in ¡°Dare to Stop Us,¡± Kazuya Shiraishi¡¯s 2018 drama about renegade director Koji Wakamatsu and his circle in the late 1960s and early ¡®70s.
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