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
- Shiro the White (1999)
- Yumika (1997)
- F Cup Couple Trip...Lustful Hot Spring (2001)
- Annyeong Yumika (2009)
- Youth 100 Kilometers (2016)
- Director Disqualified (2011)
- My Beloved AV Gal - Yumika Hayashi (1998)
- Age 21: The Time of Unfulfilled Gaps (1994)
- Bicycle Sighs (1990)
- A Dandelion, Rosaceae (1990)
- ENDLESS LOVE (1988)
- Encyclopedia of a Drifter (1998)
- WATER CROWN (1986)
- Beautiful Caster's Propensity (1995)
- Nasty Couple To the North... (2003)
- 21-year-old Fuji Kasumi (1994)
- The Kimodameshi (1994)