Katsuyuki Hirano
Known for
Directing
Birthplace
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Biography
Born in Shizuoka, 1964. Aspiring cartoonist until the age of 18, when he began filmmaking. After being selected for the Pia Film Festival three years in a row, 1985 to 1987, he began to direct adult-experimental-video in 1990. Yumika, the first Hokkaido-bike-trip film, had its theatrical debut in 1997. Encyclopedia of a Drifter, the second in the bike-trip series came out in 1998. The White, finished in 1999, concludes the three part bike-trip series.
Best known work
Bicycle Sighs
1990
GAMERA 1999
1999
A Man's Flower Road
1987
Director Disqualified
2011
F Cup Couple Trip...Lustful Hot Spring
2001
A Dandelion, Rosaceae
1990
Yumika
1997
Youth 100 Kilometers
2016
A Painful Pair
2002
Encyclopedia of a Drifter
1998Filmography
TBA
2016
Youth 100 KilometersDirector, Writer
2011
Director Disqualifiedas Himself, Director, Cinematography
2009
Annyeong Yumikaas Himself
2003
Nasty Couple To the North...Director
2002
A Painful PairDirector of Photography
2001
1999
Shiro the Whiteas Himself, Cinematography, Writer, Editor, Director
1999
GAMERA 1999Co-Producer
1998
1998
Encyclopedia of a Drifteras Director, Director, Editor, Cinematography
1997
Yumikaas Director, Cinematography, Editor, Director, Writer
1995
Beautiful Caster's Propensityas Director, Director, Editor
1995
1994
1994
21-year-old Fuji KasumiDirector
1992
1990
Bicycle Sighsas High School Man
1990
A Dandelion, Rosaceaeas (uncredited)
1988
Galaxy Bicycle NightDirector
1988
1988
RaigyoDirector
1988
Raigyo: SwanDirector
1987
A Man's Flower RoadAssistant Camera
1986