the drifting avenger
made in 1968, koya no toseinin (the drifting avenger) stared ken takakura, , an actor known for his brooding, stoic, style .
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the constant dissonance of the film' s pretense of having something to do with the american west is actually kind of fun to observe. the more serious everyone acts, the funnier it gets .
i made the original comment you quoted from imdb. i have in the past couple of days found the movie. there are two sites i have found with the movie. one is urltoken and the other japanese urltoken. the first site is in new york and the other california .
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this is a japanese “western” set in the u. s. during the cowboy era .
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a swedish arms dealer and a mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way .
after marauding bandits kill his parents a japanese immigrant takes up the six - shooter to hunt down the murderers. the first japanese movie to be shot in australia, it uses the wide open spaces to good effect .
there' s no plot worthy of the name. a japanese family in the old west is slaughtered by bandits. a little boy was hiding under the bed when his family got killed, & he' s the chap who grows up to be ken takakura on the trail of vengeance .
the film is so cheap & awful that when the villain' s glued - on beard is hanging loose on one side of his face for several scenes, nobody bothers to stop shooting to reattach the beard, let alone blow the budget by reshooting those scenes .
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many years ago on my first visit to nundle, i stopped to have a beer at the local pub. sitting outside on the shady verandah, i was struck by a movie poster on the wall, a japanese western apparently shot in nundle. all these years later, i have finally got round to tracing the film .
the movies were filmed 42 years apart, and they could not be more different .
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1968) was clearly intended to give the biggest star of the decade, ken takakura, a chance to dress & act like a western gunslinger, whose father (takashi shimura) raised ken' s character in the american west where he failed to learn proper english .
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turnabout is fair play as the first japanese version of an american western brings a different feeling to this film. considered high camp, this early look at the work of filmmaker sato junya from 42 years prior to making his mark with the sakurada gate incident. location filming was done entirely in australia .
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( japanese with english subtitles) a disgraced warrior planning the murder of a japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy official are about to land in san francisco when a band... see full summary »
jermaine fowler and omari hardwick of sorry to bother you take us back in time to the worst jobs of their careers .
a gunfighter forms a gang of
deceased
execution victims to get revenge on the politician and outlaw who killed his wife .
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known, in imb' s words, as the
clint eastwood
of japan, takakura gained his streetwise swagger and tough guy persona watching yakuza turf battles over the lucrative black market and racketeering in postwar fukuoka. this subject was covered in one of his most famous movies, showa zankyo - den (1965) in which he played an honorable old - school yakuza among the violent post - war gurentai .
a killer who only hits people who deserve it is tricked into killing an innocent man. he then seeks revenge against the people who employed him .
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this is as much as i know at present. i, too, would like to see the film. it was apparently never released in australia .
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ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. he quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town' s mill .
although ken is one of my favorite actors, & looks good in western jeans & cowboy hat, he is nevertheless absurdly out of place sauntering through the swinging doors of a saloon & ordering ,
wish - key .
four men killed django' s brother a long time ago. a withdrawn rancher, a notorious card player, a despotic priest and a crazy albino with an obsession for gold. the relentless django seeks for revenge and hunts them down without mercy .
his unintentionally wacky wild west film was shot partially in nundle, australia, mostly in japan, with a japanese crew from toei studios, widescreen & color, striving to capture the look & feel of a spaghetti western, failing big - time .
ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from japan. soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making him aim to get revenge. marvin an experienced gunman befriends ken and becomes his mentor .
finding a caucasian leading lady who knew how to bow from her knees in a perfectly japanese style is just one symptom of a script & production team that knew nothing about the wild west, wherein saloon gals just wouldn' t know squat about polite geisha behavior .
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a reluctant hero, american lieutenant sam lawson, is secunded to a motley british unit tasked with destroying a japanese radio on a philippine island .
though filmed in australia, this film was not theatrically released in australian cinemas .
not too bad a movie. i had a part as an extra in it .
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the drifting avenger is a japanese western film shot in australia . it was also known as koya no toseinin . the film was shot at goonoo goonoo station near tamworth . 
the drifting avenger is a japanese western film shot in australia. it was also known as koya no toseinin. the film was shot at goonoo goonoo station near tamworth.
the drifting avenger is a japanese western film shot in australia. it was also known as koya no toseinin. the film was shot at goonoo goonoo station near tamworth.