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Crooked Earth

6.2 0 mins Drama   2001
Communicado Productions   Pandora   New Zealand Film Commission   NZ on Air  
Director(s): Sam Pillsbury

Will Bastion returns home from the army after an absence of 20 years to bury his father, the former chief of thee Maori tribe, Ngati Kaipuku. The eldest son, he is reluctant to inherit his fathers role, so it is taken more willingly by his younger brother, Kahu. Kahu is the leader of a band of drug dealers and trouble-makers who ride horses through the middle of town, wrecking peoples gardens. Under the guise of refusal of a land settlement, Kahu makes a large marijuana deal with some murdering city folk. Will must choose between loyalty for his brother and his father, Maori tradition, and contemporary financial issues.

Casts of Crooked Earth

Temuera Morrison

as Will Bastion

Jaime Passier-Armstrong

as Ripeka Bastion

Lawrence Makoare

as Kahu Bastion

Quinton Hita

as Api

Nancy Brunning

as Marama

Mark Nua

as Iosefa

Sydney Jackson

as Pettigrew

George Henare

as Tipene

Calvin Tuteao

as Sergeant Ropiha

Stan Wolfgramm

as Timo

Sela Apera

as Huiarangi

William Davis

as Gus

Eliza Bidois

as Grace

Mabel Wharekawa

as Aunty Margaret

Patrick Wilson

as Government Minister of Forestry

Ross Duncan

as Jim Ferguson

Anaru Grant

as Army Major

Arthur Ranford

as Hardware Store Owner

Jason Nathan

as Puru

Lionel Waaka

as Hako

Slade Leef

as Big SOB

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