Haruhiko Arai Trailers
Sadistic and Masochistic Trailer
Writer and director.
Total trailers found: 66
23 August 2019
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.
03 May 2002
This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jung.
23 June 1979
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.
21 March 1992
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.
26 July 2014
The lives and loves of several people all intersect in the Golden Gai, a labyrinth of alleys and bars located in central Tokyo.
01 October 1977
After a fight with a local girl gang, Yoko serves time in prison. After her release the world she once knew has changed.
01 January 1998
Fukano, an elderly novelist who grew up in the mountains of Tokyo, met a young woman, Kana, for the first time in Fukagawa.
22 February 1992
A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.
23 October 1981
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.
28 February 1987
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.
23 October 1981
George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker.
24 July 1981
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.
06 June 1998
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.
10 November 2023
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.
16 April 1983
The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.
23 October 1999
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.
05 August 1983
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.
19 December 2025
A 40-something disillusioned novelist, Yazoe, haunted by a failed marriage and a crippling personal secret, navigates hollow affairs with a courtesan named Chieko while projecting his emotional void onto the protagonists of his love novels—until an accidental encounter with a naive college student, Noriko Seyawa, unravels his guarded solitude, forcing him to confront his fear of intimacy and the buried trauma shaping his twisted philosophy on love.
06 November 2010
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.
07 September 2014
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.
10 June 2006
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.
17 February 1979
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.
14 March 1977
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa.
09 January 1988
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.
28 December 1979
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea.
07 September 2013
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.
04 October 1980
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.
01 August 2015
In suburban Tokyo in 1945, years of war and concentrated air raids by US forces have left the city in tatters and the population poor, tired, and hungry.
18 March 1983
An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.
01 September 2023
Based on the murder of nine street peddlers in the aftermath of the Great Kanto earthquake.
11 September 1974
Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her.
26 August 2017
Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage.
16 July 2011
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.
08 October 1993
Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
01 January 1971
A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach.
15 December 1984
A young theatre actress fights for her uncertain career while having to confront the personal sacrifices that will arise from it.
27 April 2013
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.
17 September 1977
A young couple with artistic tendencies spends their time around a bar in central Shinjuku, trying to figure out their relationship and life aspirations.
14 September 1985
A troubled architect weaves his way through numerous romantic situations in a search for true love and contentment.
13 September 2014
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.
25 March 1983
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.
06 December 2003
Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks excessively.
31 December 2022
Tatsuji Miyoshi regards Sakutaro Hagiwara as his teacher. Feelings run deeper since he loves Sakutaro’s youngest sister, Keiko, but she rejects him.
04 August 1971
After 15-year-old Yasuko has her first orgasm with a teacher, she and her disillusioned group of friends decide to turn to prostitution to gain a better understanding of what emotions truly are.
18 October 1997
A group of four friends and lovers in their forties recall their past intimacies while trying to build new ones.
20 December 1986
Without knowing their names a man and woman have sex. Afterwards they introduce themselves and begin an affair.
18 August 1979
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.
27 January 2001
Documentary on Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, with a heavy focus on prolific director Masaru Konuma.
01 January 2000
A couple of men and women who look happy. However, each of them was living another life that the other did not know.
01 July 1988
Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter.
18 November 1978
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.
19 December 1987
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.
21 November 1980
A high school girl has a very very bad day. She is disciplined for disrupting class and sent to clean lab equipment.
11 November 2022
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.
20 July 1996
A father returns from a single assignment for the first time in five years and struggles to revive a family that has collapsed.
12 April 1996
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.
06 October 1979
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.