The Drifting Avenger

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

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

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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