Known for

Directing

Place of birth

Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

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.

Titles

Yumika

Movie • 1997

Youth 100 Kilometers

Movie • 2016

GAMERA 1999

Movie • 1999

A Man's Flower Road

Movie • 1987

Bicycle Sighs

Movie • 1990

My Beloved AV Gal - Yumika Hayashi

Movie • 1998

Encyclopedia of a Drifter

Movie • 1998

WATER CROWN

Movie • 1986