Directing
Katsuyuki Hirano
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
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.
Acting credits
NRDecember 1989, director Katsuyuki Hirano took on the journey of biking across Hokkaido under extreme weather. This is the documentary about that journey.
Shiro the White
1999
6.0The 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.
Youth 100 Kilometers
2016
10.0The documentary of director Katsuyuki Hirano and adult film actress Yumika Hayashi's 41-day biking trip.
Yumika
1997
NRDon'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)
Annyeong Yumika
2009
NRTwo years after the film "Yumika", Katsuyuki Hirano and Yumika Hayashi go out on a bicycle trip again. Included in the "Yumika" 1997 DVD.
My Beloved AV Gal - Yumika Hayashi
1998
8.5A glimpse into the life of porn actress Yumika, framed by her older, married lover's haunting attempt to reconcile their past with her sudden death in 2005.
Director Disqualified
2011
10.0Director Katsuyuki Hirano travels north to find his girlfriend whom he met in Hokkaido a long time ago
F Cup Couple Trip...Lustful Hot Spring
2001
6.0Shiro 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.
Bicycle Sighs
1990
6.0Using stop-motion animation, what Koguchi called 無理矢理アニメ (forced animation), twin sisters Lulu and Lala go through enchanting bodily transformations. The film is a playful and disorienting exploration of sexuality, gender ambiguity, and the chaos of desire, made in the shadow of the AIDS crisis.
A Dandelion, Rosaceae
1990
NRThe 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.
ENDLESS LOVE
1988
NRHirano 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.
21-year-old Fuji Kasumi
1994
NROmnibus 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.
Age 21: The Time of Unfulfilled Gaps
1994
NRNagaremono 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.
Encyclopedia of a Drifter
1998
NRPursuing 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.
Nasty Couple To the North...
2003
NR"Sex in a typhoon", a depressed pianist AV actress Nana Honda and Katsuyuki Hirano.
Beautiful Caster's Propensity
1995
NRIra, a girl who seems to be leading a normal high school life but is apparently working as a prostitute, and Kishida, a seemingly ordinary cram school student who may have raped her, are bound together by a strange and poignant relationship...
WATER CROWN
1986
NRGhosts, 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.
The Kimodameshi
1994
Behind the camera
NRDecember 1989, director Katsuyuki Hirano took on the journey of biking across Hokkaido under extreme weather. This is the documentary about that journey.
Shiro the White
1999
NRDecember 1989, director Katsuyuki Hirano took on the journey of biking across Hokkaido under extreme weather. This is the documentary about that journey.
Shiro the White
1999
NRWhen Otomo Katsuhiro saw his manga Good Weather credited as the “original novel” he burst out laughing. There’s not an iota of his book anywhere in the film. Made in the same year as Sono Sion’s A Man’s Flower Road, Hirano Katsuyuki’s Happiness Avenue (where Sono plays a role) is madder and more abandoned, in both filmmaking and content. Lovelorn Masahiro goes on an odyssey to find fulfilment of his heart’s desire, and the sea he traverses are Tokyo’s open sewages.
Happiness Avenue
1986
NRWhen Otomo Katsuhiro saw his manga Good Weather credited as the “original novel” he burst out laughing. There’s not an iota of his book anywhere in the film. Made in the same year as Sono Sion’s A Man’s Flower Road, Hirano Katsuyuki’s Happiness Avenue (where Sono plays a role) is madder and more abandoned, in both filmmaking and content. Lovelorn Masahiro goes on an odyssey to find fulfilment of his heart’s desire, and the sea he traverses are Tokyo’s open sewages.
Happiness Avenue
1986
6.0The 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.
Youth 100 Kilometers
2016
6.0The 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.
Youth 100 Kilometers
2016
10.0The documentary of director Katsuyuki Hirano and adult film actress Yumika Hayashi's 41-day biking trip.
Yumika
1997
10.0The documentary of director Katsuyuki Hirano and adult film actress Yumika Hayashi's 41-day biking trip.
Yumika
1997
NRFilm by Katsuyuki Hirano
How to Document Exciting Pervert Lecture: The Art of Finger Blaming
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No synopsis available yet.
団地妻いじわるな指
1984
No synopsis available yet.
FINALE
1983
NRTwo years after the film "Yumika", Katsuyuki Hirano and Yumika Hayashi go out on a bicycle trip again. Included in the "Yumika" 1997 DVD.
My Beloved AV Gal - Yumika Hayashi
1998
8.5A glimpse into the life of porn actress Yumika, framed by her older, married lover's haunting attempt to reconcile their past with her sudden death in 2005.
Director Disqualified
2011
10.0Director Katsuyuki Hirano travels north to find his girlfriend whom he met in Hokkaido a long time ago
F Cup Couple Trip...Lustful Hot Spring
2001
NRThe suspense about a man in pursuit and a man being pursued.
GUST
1982
NRHirano 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.
21-year-old Fuji Kasumi
1994
NRProduced at the same time as Mito Torture: Oedo Dragging. This is a drama, a violent drama depicting a love triangle over a cute woman at a convenience store. At the time, small, high-performance video cameras called Handycams were beginning to appear on the market, and I came up with a drama that used this voyeuristic, criminal perspective. The convenience store was borrowed from the real thing. We aimed for realism.
Going Undercover: Convenience Store Gal Chapter
1992
NRKatsuyuki Hirano's 8mm movie "Galaxy Bicycle Night". Unlike a feature film, it is a movie that uses one camera and one battery light, and I wander around the city or park at midnight. There is nothing like a drama, it is composed of the first part and the second part, and it is a simple movie that ends with the existence of an ex-girlfriend, I was dating back then. Katsuyuki Hirano released this film when he was 23 years old.
Galaxy Bicycle Night
1988
NRThe camera enters the "Sunayama Ginza" shopping district in Hamamatsu. The people in the area, the signboards for the "eradication of night butterflies," etc., are recorded in an unhurried manner. Suddenly, however, with the voice of the artist saying, "No more deception," the camera stands in the middle of a rainy intersection. As if to say, "This is my expression," we can feel the artist's fresh breath.
SUNAYAMA-GINZA
1985
NRThe camera enters the "Sunayama Ginza" shopping district in Hamamatsu. The people in the area, the signboards for the "eradication of night butterflies," etc., are recorded in an unhurried manner. Suddenly, however, with the voice of the artist saying, "No more deception," the camera stands in the middle of a rainy intersection. As if to say, "This is my expression," we can feel the artist's fresh breath.
SUNAYAMA-GINZA
1985
In 1994, adult video director Katsuyuki Hirano gets married, but soon afterward falls in love with actress Mami Shikata. Hirano begins documenting their affair with the intention of turning it into a film, but Shikata grows tired of the relationship and suddenly disappears from his life. Desperate to find her, Hirano pursues various schemes and searches for clues, yet she does not return. Even so, he continues his obsessive quest to follow her traces...
Wakuwaku furin kōza: Tanoshii furin no susume
1995
NROmnibus 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.
Age 21: The Time of Unfulfilled Gaps
1994
NRNagaremono 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.
Encyclopedia of a Drifter
1998
NRPursuing 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.
Nasty Couple To the North...
2003