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
Unknown
Fukutarô Ichikawa
San Tsang, the holy man
Michino Yokoyama
Unknown
Zeko Nakamura
Wu Ching, the water spirit
Yū Fujiki
Unknown
Tōru Yuri
Unknown
Toshiaki Minami
Unknown
Arihiro Fujimura
Unknown
Mantarō Ushio
Unknown
Yoshio Kosugi
King of Devils
Musei Tokugawa
Unknown
Susumu Fujita
Unknown
Crew
Kajirō Yamamoto
Director, Screenplay
Takeo Murata
Screenplay
Wu Cheng'en
Novel
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Editor
Hajime Koizumi
Director of Photography
Susumu Kodama
Assistant Director
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Executive Producer
Jin Usami
Executive Producer
Shoichi Fujinawa
Sound Recordist
Hisashi Shimonaga
Sound Recordist
Masaki Ônuma
Lighting Technician
Ichirō Inohara
Lighting Technician
Kuichiro Kishida
Lighting Technician
Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects Supervisor
Ikuma Dan
Original Music Composer
Takeo Kita
Art Direction