Katsuyuki Hirano
Also Known As: not available
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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: Not available
Age: Not available
Gender: Male
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Encyclopedia of a Drifter

Overview: Nagaremono zukan is a documentary video, release from V&R Planning (AV). "Flower Picture Book" is the second work in the bicycle trilogy after Yumika. A very private sexual movie with Tomoko Matsunashi, right after Hirano broke up with Yumika. The violence of the camera is clearly increasing. If Yumika was the light, Nagaremono zukan is the shadow. There are two version of Nagaremono zukan, the censored one and the original hardcore one, with additional scenes, better quality and longer runtime.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-16
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21 years old-when gap is not seen~

Overview: Omnibus work of three directors - Baksheesh Yamashita, Company Matsuo and Katsuyuki Hirano (3 AV gals in 3 ACTS). A rich one-on-one confrontation between the director and the actress.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-02-21
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21-year-old Fuji Kasumi

Overview: Hirano plans to shoot "ordinary love AV" with actress Kasumi Fuji... This is Hirano's part/ACT of omnibus 21歳 みたされない隙間の時 by three directors.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-02-21
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Beautiful Caster's Propensity

Overview: "Sex in a typhoon", a depressed pianist AV actress Nana Honda and Katsuyuki Hirano.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-11-24
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ENDLESS LOVE

Overview: The film is divided into two chapters, "First Love" and "Endless Love", in which the author, Yoko Oguchi, chases after a different man, each saying "I love you! and chases after another man. In the second chapter, she screams in public, has sex with a man, shaves her hair and gets (really) yelled at by her parents. Beyond the fictionality and perfection of the drama, the author's daring and daredevil performance have a strong impact on the viewer.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Bicycle Sighs

Overview: Shiro and Keita didn’t manage to enter university and are stuck in their hometown delivering newspapers. Shiro persists on finishing a film they started, but Keita is not very enthusiastic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-12
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Nasty Couple To the North...

Overview: Porsuing human desires to Hokkaido in the middle of winter... Aofuki-chan, Kikurin and Katsuyuki Hirano in extreme snowstorm, open-air bath and cold. "Hot stuff that melts the ice." The purpose is to shoot sex everywhere, but eventually the actor Kikurin and the actress fall in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-24
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The Kimodameshi

Overview: Ghosts, cicadas, masturbation, vandalism and pure love at the graveyard. If you make weird enough noises will the ghosts come out? Film by Katsuyuki Hirano, 1994.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-08-11
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F Cup Couple Trip...Lustful Hot Spring

Overview: Director Katsuyuki Hirano travels north to find his girlfriend whom he met in Hokkaido a long time ago
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-30
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A Dandelion, Rosaceae

Overview: Drawing our attention to the ambiguities of sexuality, queering the relationship between body, image and voice; the filmmaker refers to it as an indirect reflection on the worldwide AIDS crisis of the 1980s.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Annyeong Yumika

Overview: Don't get it twisted: Yumika Hayashi is way more than just a porn star. She's a Rorschach test, film theory with curves, her screen image throwing off endless refractions within the hearts of those who knew her, loved her, or just got off to her. The "iron woman" of Japanese erotic film, best known for critically-acclaimed pink eiga LUNCHBOX, Hayashi died in 2005 at age 35, but in ANNYONG YUMIKA, the new documentary by Tetsuaki Matsue (LIVE TAPE), Yumika's legend is reborn, her passion made immortal. (Description by Subway Cinema)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-07-11
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Director Disqualified

Overview: In 1997, Hirano Katsuyuki, a married, middle-aged AV director, and his 26-year-old actress and lover, Hayashi Yumika, set out to cycle from Tokyo to Hokkaido. Two video versions of their trip already exist, the intimate documentary Yumika and its gonzo porno alter ego 41-Day Adultery Bicycle Tour. Hirano’s Kantoku Shikkaku reframes this ambiguous relationship in light of Yumika’s death in 2005.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-03
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Shiro the White

Overview: December 1989, director Katsuyuki Hirano took on the journey of biking across Hokkaido under extreme weather. This is the documentary about that journey.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-12-18
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Yumika

Overview: The documentary of director Katsuyuki Hirano and adult film actress Yumika Hayashi's 41-day biking trip.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-03
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Youth 100 Kilometers

Overview: The retirement movie for adult film actress Ai Uehara, directed by Katsuyuki Hirano. A big fan of Ai Uehara have to go on a 100-kilometer marathon to have sex with her.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-09
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Water Crown

Overview: A seemingly ordinary preparatory school student Kishida who seemed to have raped her with a girl who seems to be prostituting while seemingly sending an ordinary high school girl high life is tied up with some kind of strange relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-01-06
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My beloved AV gal - Yumika Hayashi

Overview: Short film "My beloved AV gal - Yumika Hayashi" included in the Yumika 1997 DVD by Katsuyuki Hirano. "My beloved AV gal" (愛しのAVギャル) is an omnibus project by three directors Akira Takatsuki (高槻彰), Company Matsuo (カンパニー松尾) and Katsuyuki Hirano (平野勝之) for which each director was to shoot their beloved AV gal. For this and as a continuation of "Yumika", two years after their bicycle trip, Katsuyuki Hirano and Yumika Hayashi went out on a bicycle trip again.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-08-20
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