Film
The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
Japan- Director
- Kajirō Yamamoto
- Year
- 1959
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.
Top cast
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
Toshiaki Minami
Arihiro Fujimura
Mantarō Ushio
Yoshio Kosugi
King of Devils
Musei Tokugawa
Susumu Fujita
Directed by
Kajirō Yamamoto
Written by
Kajirō Yamamoto, Takeo Murata
