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
Hajime Koizumi
Director of Photography
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Executive Producer
Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects Supervisor
Jin Usami
Executive Producer
Takeo Kita
Art Direction
Masaki Ônuma
Lighting Technician
Ichirō Inohara
Lighting Technician
Shoichi Fujinawa
Sound Recordist
Hisashi Shimonaga
Sound Recordist
Details.
Release DateApril 19, 1959
Original Name孫悟空
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 38m
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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.