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The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (1959)
Directed by Kajirō Yamamoto
Adventure, Fantasy · 1h 38m
The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original legends, this film substitutes the spindly comic actor Norihei Miki, sans makeup.
Cast
Norihei Miki
Sun Wu Kung
Reiko Dan
Pon, messenger of the Goddess of Mercy
Yasuko Nakada
Queen of the spiders
Kaoru Yachigusa
Tsui Lan, the maiden in distress
Nobuo Chiba
Pa Chieh, the pig
F
Fumie Noguchi
F
Fukutarô Ichikawa
San Tsang, the holy man
Michino Yokoyama
Zeko Nakamura
Wu Ching, the water spirit
Yū Fujiki
Tōru Yuri
Toshiaki Minami
Crew
- Director
- Kajirō Yamamoto
- Screenplay
- Kajirō Yamamoto, Takeo Murata
- Novel
- Wu Cheng'en
- Director of Photography
- Hajime Koizumi
- Original Music Composer
- Ikuma Dan
- Editor
- Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Details
- Original title
- 孫悟空
- Release date
- 1959-04-19
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Adventure, Fantasy
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO