Katsuyuki Hirano
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.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Known for
- Bicycle Sighs (1990) — High School Man
- GAMERA 1999 (1999) — Co-Producer
- A Man's Flower Road (1987) — Assistant Camera
- Director Disqualified (2011) — Himself
- Naked Rabbit (1992) — Director
- F Cup Couple Trip...Lustful Hot Spring (2001)
- A Dandelion, Rosaceae (1990) — (uncredited)
- Yumika (1997) — Director
- Youth 100 Kilometers (2016)
- A Painful Pair (2002) — Director of Photography
- Encyclopedia of a Drifter (1998) — Director
- Age 21: The Time of Unfulfilled Gaps (1994)
- 21-year-old Fuji Kasumi (1994)
- Beautiful Caster's Propensity (1995) — Director
- ENDLESS LOVE (1988)
- Nasty Couple To the North... (2003)