Songoku: The Road to the West (1959)

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Country: Japan
Genres: Fantasy
Release: 1959-04-19
Director: Kajirō Yamamoto
Writers: Takeo Murata , Wu Cheng’en , Kajirō Yamamoto
Language: Japanese
Stars: Norihei Miki , Fukutarô Ichikawa , Nobuo Chiba , Reiko Dan , Zeko Nakamura , Yoshio Kosugi , Yasuko Nakada , Hideyo Amamoto , Arihiro Fujimura , Susumu Fujita
Runtime: 98 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Monkey Magic , The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung , Descendants Enlightened on Air , Songokû , 孫悟空 (Japan) , Monkey Sun (Japan) , Songoku: The Road to the West (United States of America) , The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (United States of America) , The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (United Kingdom) , Magic Monkey Sky
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0053078