The Drifting Avenger
Directed byJunya Sato
StarringKen Takakura
Production
company
Release date
1968
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget300 million yen

The Drifting Avenger is a Japanese Western film shot in Australia. It was also known as Koya no toseinin.[1][2]

Cast

  • 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)

Production

The film was shot at Goonoo Goonoo Station near Tamworth,[3] with location scenes shot in the village of Nundle, & interior scenes shot at Toei Studios in Tokyo.

References

  1. ↑ 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)
  2. ↑ Vagg, Stephen (July 24, 2019). "50 Meat Pie Westerns". Filmink.
  3. ↑ "DODGE CITY, Goonoo Goonoo-style". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 15 May 1968. p. 4. Retrieved 6 October 2013.


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