The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (1959)
Original title: 孫悟空
The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung is a 1959 Japanese-language adventure movie directed by Kajirō Yamamoto, with a running time of 1h 38m. It stars Norihei Miki, Reiko Dan and Yasuko Nakada.
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.
Cast
- 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
- Fumie Noguchi
- Fukutarô Ichikawa as San Tsang, the holy man
- Michino Yokoyama
- Zeko Nakamura as Wu Ching, the water spirit
- Yū Fujiki
- Tōru Yuri
- Toshiaki Minami