The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (1959)
1h 38m
Running Time
April 19, 1959Release Date
The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (1959)
1h 38m
Running Time
April 19, 1959Release Date
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Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Norihei Miki
Sun Wu Kung

Reiko Dan
Pon, messenger of the Goddess of Mercy

Yasuko Nakada
Queen of the spiders

Kaoru Yachigusa
Tsui Lan, the maiden in distress

Nobuo Chiba
Pa Chieh, the pig

Fumie Noguchi

Fukutarô Ichikawa
San Tsang, the holy man

Michino Yokoyama

Zeko Nakamura
Wu Ching, the water spirit

Yū Fujiki

Tōru Yuri

Yoshio Kosugi
King of Devils

Kajirō Yamamoto
Director / Screenplay

Takeo Murata
Screenplay

Wu Cheng'en
Novel

Tomoyuki Tanaka
Executive Producer

Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects Supervisor

Hajime Koizumi
Director of Photography

Masaki Ônuma
Lighting Technician

Ikuma Dan
Original Music Composer

Takeo Kita
Art Direction

Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Editor

Jin Usami
Executive Producer

Ichirō Inohara
Lighting Technician
Details.
Release DateApril 19, 1959
Original Name孫悟空
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
tokusatsu
Wiki.
Monkey Sun (孫悟空, Son Gokū, lit. Sun Wukong) is a 1959 Japanese tokusatsu fantasy action film directed by Kajirō Yamamoto, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. The film was based on Journey to the West written by Wu Cheng'en and was the second adaptation of the novel by Yamamoto and Tsuburaya, after 1940's Enoken's Sun Wukong. It has never been released in the United States or dubbed and subtitled in English.