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The Drifting Avenger
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Wikipedia article
'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)
The film was shot at Goonoo Goonoo Station near Tamworth, with location scenes shot in the village of Nundle, & interior scenes shot at Toei Studios in Tokyo.
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
References
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