The Drifting Avenger

The Drifting Avenger
Directed by	Junya Sato
Starring	Ken Takakura
Production company	Toei Studios
Release date	1968 (1968)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	300 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.

External links

• The Drifting Avenger at IMDb
• The Drifting Avenger at Oz Movies