The Drifting Avenger
{{short description|1968 film}}
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| name = The Drifting Avenger
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| director = Junya Sato
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| starring = Ken Takakura
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| studio = Toei Studios
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| released = {{Film date|1968}}
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| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget = 300 million yen
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The Drifting Avenger is a Japanese Western film shot in Australia. It was also known as Koya no toseinin.Olivia Khoo, "Tokyo drifting: Toei Corporation's The Drifting Avenger and the internationalization of the Australian western", Studies in Australasian Cinema, Volume 4, Number 3, December 2010, pp. 231-241(11){{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|title=50 Meat Pie Westerns|date=July 24, 2019}}
Cast
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- Ken Takakura as Ken Kato
- Ken Goodlet as Marvin
- Judith Roberts as Rosa
- Kevin Cooney as Mike the boy
- Ronald Norman Lea as Franco (as R. Lea)
- Clive Saxon as Billy
- Pat Twohill as Carson (as John Sherwood)
- Reginald Collins as the Doctor
- Ray Lamont as the Sheriff
- Mike Danning as Laker (as Mike Dunning)
- Osman Yusuf as Duncan (as John Yusef)
- Stanley Rogers as Rogers (as Stan Rogers)
- Tony Allen as Jack (as Tony Allan)
- Chuck Kehoe as Ricky
- Terry Farnsworth as Cowboy Gunslinger (as T. Fansworth)
- Reg Gorman as Otto
- Carlo Manchini as Wayne
- Hans Horneff as Manager (as Hans Horner)
- Graham Keating as Wess
- Peter Armstrong as a Cowboy
- Dew Purington (as D. Purington)
- John Hopkins as Cowboy A (as J. Hopkins)
- Liam Reynolds as Cowboy B (as L. Reynolds)
- B. Evis as Cowboy C
- Allen Bickford (as A. Bickford)
- P. McCornill
- Takashi Shimura as Ken's Father (as T. Shimura)
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Production
The film was shot at Goonoo Goonoo Station near Tamworth,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48531687 |title=DODGE CITY, Goonoo Goonoo-style. |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=15 May 1968 |accessdate=6 October 2013 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} with location scenes shot in the village of Nundle, & interior scenes shot at Toei Studios in Tokyo.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|tt0130639}}
- [http://www.ozmovies.com.au/movie/koya-no-toseinin The Drifting Avenger] at Oz Movies
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Category:1968 Western (genre) films
Category:Japanese Western (genre) films
Category:Films shot in Australia
Category:Films directed by Junya Satō
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