Katsuyuki Hirano
| Katsuyuki Hirano | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 (age 52–53) Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1989 – |
| Spouse(s) | Honey Hirano |
Katsuyuki Hirano (平野勝之 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 1985-1987. He appeared as an actor in the 1986 Cinderella story film Hai Kaburi (Princess Story) (はいかぶり姫物語) directed by Hisashi Saitō (斎藤久志). In January 1989 Raigyo (雷魚) 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 (イメージフォーラム・フェスティバル).
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 (由美香). Both the video and the movie were produced by V&R Planning. The trip to the northern Japanese Rebun Island in Hokkaidō 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 (流れ者図鑑 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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