Katsuyuki Hirano
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Film director Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
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Katsuyuki Hirano (born 1964, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese director of adult videos (AV) and documentaries. An aspiring cartoonist, he began making amateur films at 18 and was selected for the Pia Film Festival three years in a row, 1985 to 1987, before directing adult-experimental video from 1990. His bike-trip trilogy — Yumika (1997), Encyclopedia of a Drifter (1998) and Shiro - The White (1999) — follows his solo bicycle journeys, with Shiro - The White winning the NETPAC Award at the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
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Japanese director of adult videos and documentaries, known for his bike-trip trilogy.
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- Born
- 1964, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (exact birth date not published)
- Career
- Amateur films from age 18; Pia Film Festival 1985-1987; adult-experimental video from 1990; Shiro - The White (1999), NETPAC Award Yamagata 1999
- Country
- Japan
- Note
- A different person from the manga artist Katsuyuki Hirano
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