No community ratings yet on FilmStash · 0 membersOne score per member · Verified member ratings
Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.Read moreLess
Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.
The story
Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.
Cast & crew
Temuera MorrisonWill Bastion
Jaime Passier-ArmstrongRipeka Bastion
Lawrence MakoareKahu Bastion
Nancy BrunningMarama
Mark NuaIosefa
Sydney JacksonPettigrew
George HenareTipene
Calvin TuteaoSergeant Ropiha
William DavisExplore the crew
- Director
- Sam Pillsbury
- Producer
- Robin Scholes
- Writer
- Greg McGee
- Writer
- Waihoroi Shortland
- Editor
- Chris Plummer
- Original Music Composer
- James Hall
- Director of Photography
- David Gribble
- Writer
- Gavin Strawhan
- Writer
- Michael Brindley
- Writer
- Karin Altmann