The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (1959)
The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (1959) - Adventure Movies 98 minutes. Songokû, Monkey Sun, Son Gokū, Sun Wukong. 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. tokusatsu
Released: Apr 19, 1959
Runtime: 98 minutes
Stars: Norihei Miki, Reiko Dan, Yasuko Nakada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Nobuo Chiba, Fumie Noguchi
Crew: Kajirō Yamamoto (Director), Takeo Murata (Screenplay), Kajirō Yamamoto (Screenplay), Wu Cheng'en (Novel), Tomoyuki Tanaka (Executive Producer), Eiji Tsuburaya (Special Effects Supervisor)
