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White
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JAPAN
/ 1999/ Japanese Color / Video / 118 min
Director, Editing: Hirano Katsuyuki
Music: Kitano Yuji, and others
Source: V & R Planning Ltd.
Urbanest Komazawa 2fl., 1-19-8 Komazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 154-0012
Phone: 81-3-5481-6987
Fax: 81-3-5481-3705
E-mail: vandrpln@vandr.co.jp
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Hirano
Katsuyuki
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, began to direct adult 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. White, finished in 1999,
concludes the three part bike-trip series. |
This film is about a wild bike trip from the director's
hometown of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, to Rebun Island, Hokkaido, in the
dead winter. In this third film that completes his trilogy, he acts
alone, in contrast with his previous two films, which revolve around
travel with a woman during more temperate seasons. This trip is a
scheme in itself to create a film rather than the documentation of
a trip as it happens, which is what makes it so fascinatingly distinct
from other road films.
- Masuya Shuichi
Director's
Statement
I have nothing special to say, but for now, I present this film with
my utmost gratitude to the innovators and the adventurers of the past
in all fields. Personally, I made this film to recreate the cinematic
emotions such as beauty, excitement, fear and pleasure, that I experienced
as a child, and that is all there is to tell.
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