The movie that broke its own director — and you're invited to watch him unravel.
Nagaremono zukan is a documentary video, release from V&R Planning (AV). "Flower Picture Book" is the second work in the bicycle trilogy after Yumika. A very private sexual movie with Tomoko Matsunashi, right after Hirano broke up with Yumika. The violence of the camera is clearly increasing. If Yumika was the light, Nagaremono zukan is the shadow. There are two version of Nagaremono zukan, the censored one and the original hardcore one, with additional scenes, better quality and longer runtime.
Direction
Hirano weaponizes his own gaze; the lens becomes a predator.
Editing
The uncut hardcore version's extra runtime isn't indulgence — it's evidence.
Director
Katsuyuki Hirano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Japan's 1990s 'private documentary' boom where filmmakers turned cameras on collapsing relationships, often with performers from adjacent industries.
The two-version release strategy — censored and hardcore — mirrors Hirano's thematic obsession with what's visible versus withheld, with the 'original' reportedly assembled from Hirano's personal archive after institutional resistance.
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