Hirofumi Arai

• Year — Title — Other titles — Director — Notes • 2001 — Blue Spring — 青い春 | Aoi haru — Toshiaki Toyoda — Based on Taiyō Matsumoto's manga, sets in a run-down all-boys school where violence and apathy rule the roost. • Go — Yukisada Isao — Based on Kazuki Kaneshiro's coming-of-age novel, Go. • 2002 — Justice — Yukisada Isao — (short film) • 2003 — Josee, the Tiger and the Fish — ジョゼと虎と魚たち Joze to Tora to Sakanatachi — Isshin Inudo — Based on Seiko Tanabe's novel. • 2004 — Heaven's Bookstore — 天国の本屋～恋火 Tengoku no honya — Tetsuo Shinohara — Based on Atsushi Matsuhisa and Wataru Tanaka's novel. • Loved Gun — ラブドガン Rabudo gan — Kensaku Watanabe • 69 sixtynine — Sang-il Lee — Based on Ryu Murakami's semi-autobiographical novel, 69. • Blood and Bones — 血と骨 Chi to Hone — Yoichi Sai — Based on Yan Sogiru's semi-autobiographical novel. • 2005 — Neighbour No. 13 — 隣人13号 Rinjin 13 Gou — Yasuo Inoue — Based on Santa Inoue's 3-volume dark psychological thriller manga. • The Whispering of the Gods — ゲルマニウムの夜 Gerumaniumu no Yoru (Germanium's Night) — Tatsushi Ōmori — Based on Mangetsu Hanamura's novel. Rou (Arai) returns to his childhood home, a monastery of a tight-knit Christian community, where he soon forces them to face its dark brutal past. • 2006 — Sway — ゆれる Yureru — Miwa Nishikawa — A courtroom drama that revolves around fraternal rivalry that ends with the murder of a childhood friend. • 2007 — The Matsugane Potshot Affair — 松ヶ根乱射事件 Matsugane Ransha Jiken — Nobuhiro Yamashita — Based on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's crime novel. • 2008 — A Crowd of Three — (ケンタとジュンとカヨちゃんの国 Kenta to Jun to Kayo-chan no Kuni — Tatsushi Ōmori — a.k.a. Kenta, Jun And Kayo-chan's Country • My Darling of the Mountains — Yama no Anata ~Tokuichi no Koi~ (Beyond the Mountains: Tokuichi in Love) — Katsuhito Ishii — A remake of Hiroshi Shimizu’s 1938 film The Masseurs and a Woman. • 2009 — The Blood of Rebirth — Yomigaeri no Chi — Toshiaki Toyoda • The Crab Cannery Ship — Kanikōsen — Hiroyuki Tanaka — Based on Takiji Kobayashi's 1929 politically satirical novella. • The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio — Kuhio Taisa (Captain Kuhio) — Daihachi Yoshida — Based on Kazumasa Yoshida’s 2006 biographical novel Kekkon Sagishi Kuhio Taisa (Marriage Swindler: Captain Kuhio). • 224466 — Tadanobu Asano — Part of R246 Story, a film anthology that revolves around Japan's 76-mile highway, Route 246. Other R246 Story short films: CLUB246 (Ilmari), Jiroru: Densetsu no Yo-na-o-shi (Shido Nakamura), Bento Fufu (Yūsuke Santamaria), Arifureta Kisho (Genki Sudo), Dead Noise (Verbal). • Villon's Wife — ヴィヨンの妻 Viyon no Tsuma — Kichitaro Negishi — Based on Osamu Dazai's 1947 semi-autobiographical short story. • Mt. Tsurugidake — 劒岳 点の記 Tsurugidake Ten no Ki — Daisaku Kimura — Based on Jirō Nitta's historical novel. • 2010 — Douki (TV movie) — 同期 (Synchronization) — Yu Irie — Detective Ryouta Udagawa (Ryuhei Matsuda) searches for his rival colleague Kazuhiko Soga (Hirofumi Arai) who went missing after a murder. • Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano — (名前のない女たち Namae no Nai Onnatachi (Nameless Women) — Hisayasu Satō — Based on Atsuhiko Nakamura's memoir on how she was roped into working in Japan's porn industry. • A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries — Doch yakudzy Yakuza Girl — Sergei Bodrov • Confessions — 告白 Kokuhaku — Tetsuya Nakashima — Based on Kanae Minato's 2008 novel. • All Around Us — ぐるりのこと Gururi no Koto (What's All Round Us) — Ryōsuke Hashiguchi • BOX: The Hakamada Case - What's Life? — BOX 袴田事件 命とは BOX: Hakamada jiken - inochi towa — Banmei Takahashi — Based on the Hakamada Incident, a real-life event that inspires former magistrate Norimichi Kumamoto's nationwide campaign to save a man who was sentenced to Japan's Death Row for murdering a family of four in 1966. • 2011 — That's the Way!! A Film Starring Fujio Akatsuka — これでいいのだ!! 映画★赤塚不二夫 Korede iinoda!! Eiga★Akatsuka Fujio — Hideaki Sato — Based on the life of manga artist Fujio Akatsuka. • Slapstick Brothers — 漫才ギャング Manzai gyangu (Manzai Gang) — Hiroshi Shinagawa • Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai — 一命 Ichimei (one life) — Takashi Miike — A 3D remake of Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 film Harakiri. • Seiji: House 475 — セイジ 陸の魚 Seiji: Riku no Sakana — Yûsuke Iseya — Based on Tomoki Tsujiuchi's novel, Seiji. In 2012, House 475 was retitled and re-released as Seiji: Riku no Uo (Seiji: Fish on Land). • Love Strikes! — モテキ Moteki — Hitoshi Ohne — Based on Mitsuro Kubo's romantic comedy manga. Set a year after the ending of the 2010 TV series Moteki with Mirai Moriyama reviving his leading role as Yukiyo Fujimoto. Arai appears as Yuichi Shimada, Fujimoto's long-suffering friend. • The Eclipse's Shadow — Shiro Tokiwa — (short film) Three couples meet during the afternoon of a total solar eclipse. • 2012 — Liar Game: Reborn — ライアーゲーム-再生- — Hiroaki Matsuyama — Based on Shinobu Kaitani's manga Liar Game. • Space Brothers — 宇宙兄弟 — Yoshitaka Mori — Based on Chūya Koyama's 2008 drama-comedy manga Uchu Kyodai. • House of Quilt — キルトの家 Quilt no ie — Two-part NHK TV drama. Broadcast in January, 2012. After an earthquake, a young couple moves to a residential complex in Tokyo where they meet residents and learn about life from them. • Helter Skelter — ヘルタースケルター Heruta Sukeruta — Mika Ninagawa — Based on Kyoko Okazaki's manga that revolves around a superstar whose mind and life rapidly unravel. • Ushijima the Loan Shark — 闇金ウシジマくん Yamikin Ushijima-kun — Masatoshi Yamaguchi — Based on Shohei Manabe's manga series. • Outrage Beyond — アウトレイジ ビヨンド Autoreiji Biyondo — Takeshi Kitano — A sequel to Kitano's 2010 film Outrage. • Blazing Famiglia — 莫逆家族 Bakugeki Kazoku (Bakugyaku Family) — Kazuyoshi Kumakiri — Based on Hiroshi Tanaka's 11-volume manga series. • The Samurai That Night — その夜の侍 Sono Yoru no Samurai — Masaaki Akahori — Based on director Akahori's stage play. • Hitori Shizuka — ヒトリシズカ — Hirayama Hideyuki — A TV adaptation of Honda Tetsuya's mystery novel, which revolves around a police investigation of six murders. • 2013 — The Ravine of Goodbye — さよなら渓谷 (Sayonara keikoku) — Tatsushi Ōmori — Based on Shuichi Yoshida's short story that explores the media's role in determining the guilt of a potential child murderer. • The Eternal Zero — 永遠の0 (Eien no Zero) — Takashi Yamazaki • 2014 — 100 Yen Love — 百円の恋 — Masaharu Take • Tada's Do-It-All House — まほろ駅前狂騒曲 — Tatsushi Omori • Close Range Love — 近キョリ恋愛 — Naoto Kumazawa • Climbing to Spring — 春を背負って — Daisaku Kimura • Kiki's Delivery Service — 魔女の宅急便 — Takashi Shimizu • Love's Whirlpool — 愛の渦 — Daisuke Miura • Judge! — ジャッジ！ — Akira Nagai • 2015 — Sayonara — さようなら — Kōji Fukada — Based on a play by Oriza Hirata. • Parasyte: Part 2 — 寄生獣 完結編 — Takashi Yamazaki • Akegarasu — 明烏 — Yuichi Fukuda • Hero — Masayuki Suzuki • Bakuman — バクマン。 — Hitoshi One • 2016 — The Actor — 俳優 亀岡拓次 — Satoko Yokohama • While the Women Are Sleeping — 女が眠る時 — Wayne Wang • Lost and Found — 星ガ丘ワンダーランド — Show Yanagisawa • Hentai Kamen: Abnormal Crisis — 変態仮面~アブノーマル・クライシス — Yuichi Fukuda • The Katsuragi Murder Case — 葛城事件 — Masaaki Akahori • Emi-Abi — エミアビのはじまりとはじまり — Kensaku Watanabe • 2017 — A Boy Who Wished to be Okuda Tamio And A Girl Who Drove All Men Crazy — 奥田民生になりたいボーイと出会う男すべて狂わせるガール — Hitoshi Ohne • Gintama — 銀魂 — Yūichi Fukuda • The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. — 斉木楠雄のΨ難 — Yūichi Fukuda • 2018 — Samurai's Promise — 散り椿 — Daisaku Kimura • Thicker Than Water — 犬猿 — Keisuke Yoshida • Nakimushi Shottan no Kiseki — 泣き虫しょったんの奇跡 — Toshiaki Toyoda • 2019 — Typhoon Family — 台風家族 — Masahide Ichii