The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (1959)

Director: Kajirō Yamamoto

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

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