The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (1959)


  • Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
  • Release Date: 1959-04-19
  • Runtime: 1h 38min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: TOHO
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Kajirō Yamamoto

Summary

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.

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  • Norihei Miki

    as Sun Wu Kung

  • Reiko Dan

    as Pon, messenger of the Goddess of Mercy

  • Yasuko Nakada

    as Queen of the spiders

  • Kaoru Yachigusa

    as Tsui Lan, the maiden in distress

  • Nobuo Chiba

    as Pa Chieh, the pig

  • Fumie Noguchi

    as

  • Fukutarô Ichikawa

    as San Tsang, the holy man

  • Michino Yokoyama

    as

  • Zeko Nakamura

    as Wu Ching, the water spirit

  • Yū Fujiki

    as

  • Tōru Yuri

    as

  • Toshiaki Minami

    as

  • Arihiro Fujimura

    as

  • Mantarō Ushio

    as

  • Yoshio Kosugi

    as King of Devils

  • Musei Tokugawa

    as

  • Susumu Fujita

    as
Writing Kajirō Yamamoto Screenplay
Writing Takeo Murata Screenplay
Directing Kajirō Yamamoto Director
Writing Wu Cheng'en Novel
Camera Hajime Koizumi Director of Photography
Production Tomoyuki Tanaka Executive Producer
Visual Effects Eiji Tsuburaya Special Effects Supervisor
Art Takeo Kita Art Direction
Lighting Masaki Ônuma Lighting Technician
Lighting Ichirō Inohara Lighting Technician
Editing Yoshitami Kuroiwa Editor
Production Jin Usami Executive Producer
Sound Shoichi Fujinawa Sound Recordist
Sound Ikuma Dan Original Music Composer
Directing Susumu Kodama Assistant Director
Sound Hisashi Shimonaga Sound Recordist

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