[3] Nakano made his debut as a director with the pink film Super Extreme Real Performance: Stupefaction (超過激本番・失神, Chō kageki honban" shassin), also known as Spiral Zone, for Shintōhō Eiga in 1992.
[9][10] The next year, Nakano produced the tentacle rape genre video, ExorSister, the first of a series of four hardcore erotic horror releases.
[17][18] In 1998 Nakano wrote and directed the V-Cinema release Shogun's Secret Harem aka Edo Castle Shogun's Harem Romantic Story: Big Debauchery Melting Picture Scroll (江戸城大奥綺譚 大淫乱蕩絵巻, Edo-jō Ō-oku Kitan: Dai-Inran Tō Emaki) set in the Edo period and starring actresses Yumi Yoshiyuki, Yumika Hayashi and Hotaru Hazuki.
[21] Nakano's second venture into directing pink film was again for Shintōhō Eiga, the May 2002 production Playgirl 7: Most Extreme Bawdy Games (プレイガール７ 最も淫らな遊戯, Pureigāru 7:motto mo midara na yūgi).
[30] In August 2004, he returned to the horror genre, writing and directing the low-budget V-Cinema Sexual Parasite: Killer Pussy (奇性蟲 キラープッシー, Kiseichū: Kiraa Pusshii), a revision of David Cronenberg's Shivers[3] starring Yumi Yoshiyuki and Sakurako Kaoru.
Nakano has been active in promoting live girl-on-girl wrestling bouts in Tokyo and several of his works have featured wrestling or cat fighting[3] including the previously mentioned Sumo Vixens and the 2002 video Metomic: Hand-to-Hand Battle Royale (女闘美ック・ファイト 肉弾バトル・ロワイアル, Metomikku faito:ikudan batoru rowaiyaru) which also starred Kei Mizutani.