The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
10.0(1) 1959-04-19 98 minAdventureFantasy
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.
DirectorKajirō Yamamoto
ScreenplayTakeo Murata
ScreenplayKajirō Yamamoto
Original Music ComposerIkuma Dan
Cast & characters
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
as —
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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 —
