Katsuyuki Hirano (å¹³é‡Žå‹ ä¹‹, Hirano Katsuyuki) is a Japanese
director of adult videos (AV) and documentaries. He should be
differentiated from the manga artist Katsuyuki
Hirano(平野克幸).Hirano was born in 1964 in Shizuoka Prefecture,
Japan and was an aspiring cartoonist until he began making amateur
films from the time he was 18. Three of his early films were selected
to play at the Japanese PIA independent film festival in 1985â€"1987.
He appeared as an actor in the 1986 Cinderella story film Hai Kaburi
(Princess Story) (㠯㠄㠋㠶り姫物語) directed by Hisashi SaitÅ
(斎藤久志). In January 1989 Raigyo (é›·éš) was released, an 8 mm
color film written, directed and photographed by Hirano. The film
assured his reputation as an independent film maker and won a Jury
Prize at the 1990 Image Forum Festival (イメージフォーラãƒ
・フェスティムル).Hirano started directing in the adult video
(AV) industry in the early 1990s with several videos for V&R Planning.
At the V&R studio he met AV actress Yumika Hayashi who had had a love
affair with another V&R Planning director, Company Matsuo. Hirano,
although married, also had an affair with Hayashi and starred with
her in a bike-trip AV production in January 1997 called Tokyo - Rebun
41-day Adultery Bicycle Touring Trip. He later released a mainstream
documentary of their trip in May 1997 as Yumika (ç"±ç¾Žé¦™). Both the
video and the movie were produced by V&R Planning. The trip to the
northern Japanese Rebun Island in HokkaidÅ was made in July 1996 with
the knowledge of Hirano's wife Honey (who appears in the movie) and
Hayashi's mother. The rigors of the long trip proved to be a strain on
his relationship with Hayashi. Hirano also directed AVs for the Alice
Japan studio in the 1990s, several of them with AV Idol Yuri Komuro,
including her farewell to the AV industry Last Scene in September
1999.The second of Hirano's trilogy of bike-ride documentary movies,
Encyclopedia of a Drifter (æµ ã‚Œè€…å›³é'', Nagaremono zukan), was
released in May 1998 and co-starred Tomoko Matsunashi. A hardcore
version was also released by V&R Planning in July 1998.
director of adult videos (AV) and documentaries. He should be
differentiated from the manga artist Katsuyuki
Hirano(平野克幸).Hirano was born in 1964 in Shizuoka Prefecture,
Japan and was an aspiring cartoonist until he began making amateur
films from the time he was 18. Three of his early films were selected
to play at the Japanese PIA independent film festival in 1985â€"1987.
He appeared as an actor in the 1986 Cinderella story film Hai Kaburi
(Princess Story) (㠯㠄㠋㠶り姫物語) directed by Hisashi SaitÅ
(斎藤久志). In January 1989 Raigyo (é›·éš) was released, an 8 mm
color film written, directed and photographed by Hirano. The film
assured his reputation as an independent film maker and won a Jury
Prize at the 1990 Image Forum Festival (イメージフォーラãƒ
・フェスティムル).Hirano started directing in the adult video
(AV) industry in the early 1990s with several videos for V&R Planning.
At the V&R studio he met AV actress Yumika Hayashi who had had a love
affair with another V&R Planning director, Company Matsuo. Hirano,
although married, also had an affair with Hayashi and starred with
her in a bike-trip AV production in January 1997 called Tokyo - Rebun
41-day Adultery Bicycle Touring Trip. He later released a mainstream
documentary of their trip in May 1997 as Yumika (ç"±ç¾Žé¦™). Both the
video and the movie were produced by V&R Planning. The trip to the
northern Japanese Rebun Island in HokkaidÅ was made in July 1996 with
the knowledge of Hirano's wife Honey (who appears in the movie) and
Hayashi's mother. The rigors of the long trip proved to be a strain on
his relationship with Hayashi. Hirano also directed AVs for the Alice
Japan studio in the 1990s, several of them with AV Idol Yuri Komuro,
including her farewell to the AV industry Last Scene in September
1999.The second of Hirano's trilogy of bike-ride documentary movies,
Encyclopedia of a Drifter (æµ ã‚Œè€…å›³é'', Nagaremono zukan), was
released in May 1998 and co-starred Tomoko Matsunashi. A hardcore
version was also released by V&R Planning in July 1998.
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