The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
movie
Released April 19, 1959
Overview
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
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
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Fumie Noguchi
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Fukutarô Ichikawa
as
San Tsang, the holy man
Michino Yokoyama
Zeko Nakamura
as
Wu Ching, the water spirit
Yū Fujiki
Tōru Yuri
Toshiaki Minami
Crew
Kajirō Yamamoto
as
Screenplay
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Takeo Murata
as
Screenplay
Kajirō Yamamoto
as
Director
Wu Cheng'en
as
Novel
Hajime Koizumi
as
Director of Photography
Tomoyuki Tanaka
as
Executive Producer
Eiji Tsuburaya
as
Special Effects Supervisor
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Takeo Kita
as
Art Direction
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Masaki Ônuma
as
Lighting Technician
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Ichirō Inohara
as
Lighting Technician
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
as
Editor
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Jin Usami
as
Executive Producer