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
Monkey
Fukutarô Ichikawa
Tang Sanzang
Yasuko Nakata
Queen of the spiders
Nobuo Chiba
Zhu Bajie
Kaoru Yachigusa
Tsui Lan, the maiden in distress
Reiko Dan
Actress
Kajirō Yamamoto
Director
Takeo Murata
Writer
Wu Cheng'en
Writer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer
Zeko Nakamura
Wu Ching, the water spirit
Jin Usami
Producer
Ikuma Dan
Composer
Yoshio Kosugi
King of Devils
Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects Supervisor
Hajime Koizumi
Director of Photography
Details.
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.