Kazuhiko NAKAMURA 中村和彦

Bastoni – The Stick Handlers

Nippon Cinema   ª 

AV stands for Adult Video, which means: sex film. Yamaguchi is the big star of the Japanese sex film, and everything is going very well for him - he has plenty of money, enjoys his work, and now he is marrying the biggest female porn star Natsuki, who is expecting a child from him. But when he faces a ghost from the past during a shoot, even the top professional gets confused. Is what he has enough, too much or too little? Director NAKAMURA, who like many young Japanese directors completed his apprenticeship in Japan's huge sex film industry, takes a humorous but seriously interested look at the lives of the AV protagonists. BASTONI - THE STICK HANDLERS describes the normal conflicts between desires, passions, the mind, the loins and necessities of life.

About Kazuhiko NAKAMURA
中村和彦

Kazuhiko NAKAMURA, born in Fukuoka in 1960, began working as an assistant director on sex films as a student. This is also how he met Rokuro MOCHIZUKI, who earned fame and success especially for the yakuza film ONIBI. Together they wrote the screenplay for BASTONI - THE STICK HANDLERS (2001).