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Oleg Mastich (born June 25, 1981) is a Russian screenwriter and television producer best known for his work in high-profile domestic comedies and genre-bending films. He achieved a major career breakthrough as one of the primary writers for the critically acclaimed and internationally syndicated sitcom Kitchen (Kukhnya), which became one of Russia's most successful television exports. Beyond television comedy, Mastich demonstrated his range as a screenwriter for the 2019 supernatural thriller The Ninth (Devyataya), a visually ambitious film set in 19th-century Saint Petersburg. Throughout his career, he has been a key creative force behind several popular variety shows and comedy series, including the Russian adaptation of Thank God You're Here, establishing himself as a versatile writer capable of blending sharp humor with historical and mystical narratives.
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[4] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[5] The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. When they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.
