The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (1959)
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.
Director:
Kajirō Yamamoto
Writers:
Takeo Murata, Kajirō Yamamoto.
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Norihei Miki as Sun Wu Kung |
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Reiko Dan as Pon, messenger of the Goddess of Mercy |
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Yasuko Nakada as Queen of the spiders |
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Kaoru Yachigusa as Tsui Lan, the maiden in distress |
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Nobuo Chiba as Pa Chieh, the pig |
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Fumie Noguchi as |
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Fukutarô Ichikawa as San Tsang, the holy man |
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Michino Yokoyama as |
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Zeko Nakamura as Wu Ching, the water spirit |
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Yū Fujiki as |
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Tōru Yuri as |
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Toshiaki Minami as |
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Arihiro Fujimura as |
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Mantarō Ushio as |
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Yoshio Kosugi as King of Devils |
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Musei Tokugawa as |
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Susumu Fujita as |
| Directing | Kajirō Yamamoto | Director |
| Writing | Takeo Murata | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kajirō Yamamoto | Screenplay |
| Writing | Wu Cheng'en | Novel |
| Camera | Hajime Koizumi | Director of Photography |
| Production | Tomoyuki Tanaka | Executive Producer |
| Visual Effects | Eiji Tsuburaya | Special Effects Supervisor |
| Production | Jin Usami | Executive Producer |
| Art | Takeo Kita | Art Direction |
| Lighting | Masaki Ônuma | Lighting Technician |
| Lighting | Ichirō Inohara | Lighting Technician |
| Sound | Shoichi Fujinawa | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Hisashi Shimonaga | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Ikuma Dan | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Susumu Kodama | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Yoshitami Kuroiwa | Editor |
| Lighting | Kuichiro Kishida | Lighting Technician |
