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The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

0 %|Apr 19, 1959|Adventure, Fantasy

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.

Featured Crew

Kajirō Yamamoto
Screenplay
Takeo Murata
Screenplay
Kajirō Yamamoto
Director
Wu Cheng'en
Novel
Hajime Koizumi
Director of Photography
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Executive Producer
Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects Supervisor
Takeo Kita
Art Direction

Cast

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Norihei Miki
Sun Wu Kung
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Reiko Dan
Pon, messenger of the Goddess of Mercy
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Yasuko Nakada
Queen of the spiders
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Kaoru Yachigusa
Tsui Lan, the maiden in distress
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Nobuo Chiba
Pa Chieh, the pig
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Fukutarô Ichikawa
San Tsang, the holy man
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Zeko Nakamura
Wu Ching, the water spirit
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Yoshio Kosugi
King of Devils