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Alakazam the Great (movie)

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[ adapted from Son-Goku the Monkey (manga by O. Tezuka) ]

Alternative title:
Journey to the West
Le tredici fatiche di Ercolino (Italian)
Saiyuki (Japanese)
西遊記 (Japanese)
Genres: adventure
Plot Summary: A monkey is crowned king and gains the wisdom of Merlin the Magician. When he begins to abuse his magical powers, he is sent on a long journey.
User Ratings: 15 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Excellent: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Very good: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
 Good: 3 votes (?:1, edit.dub:1, dub:1)
 Decent: 4 votes (dub:3, sub:1)
 So-so: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Not really good: -
 Weak: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 145 users, rank: #2011
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.533 (Good-.46), std. dev.: 2.0287, rank: #2398
Weighted mean: 6.527 (Good-.47), rank: #2332 (seen all: 6.97 / seen some: 6.00 / won't finish: 2.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.919 (Good-.08), rank: #1505
Running time: 88 minutes
Vintage: 1960
Premiere date:
1960-08-14 (Japan)
1961-07-26 (United States)
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 1
In the news 4 times:
2005-05-16   Dark Horse Licenses
1999-02-28   Coming Soon in Japan
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director:
Daisaku Shirakawa
Osamu Tezuka
Taiji Yabushita

Screenplay:
Goro Kontaibo
Hideyuki Takahashi
Keinosuke Uegusa
Osamu Tezuka

Music: Ryoichi Hattori

Original creator: Osamu Tezuka

Art:
Hajime Numai
Koichi Maeba
Masaaki Yano

Animation director:
Akira Okubara
Yasuji Mori

Producer: Hiroshi Ôkawa

Animation:
Akemi ôta
Akinori Matsubara
Akira Daikubara
Atsuko Nakayama
Atsushi Takagi
Chikao Tera
Daikichirou Kusube
Eiko Saito
Gizaburo Sugii
Hajime Iida
Haruko Kasai
Haruko Motoya
Hashio Kodama
Hayashi Shigeyuki
Hideki Mori
Hideo Furusawa
Hidetoshi Umeda
Hozaburo Watanabe
Kanji Akahori
Katsuji Yamaoka
Katsuko Kiuchi
Katsuko Kubota
Katsuya Oda
Kazuko Kobayashi
Kazuko Nakamura
Kazumi Sakai
Keiko Ishino
Keiko Shibata
Ken Saito
Kenzô Takao
Kiyoshi Sakai
Koichi Mori
Kyoko Nakatani
Machiko Dazai
Masako Ishizawa
Masako Nagao
Masako Sekiguchi
Masami Shino
Masao Kumagawa
Masatake Kita
Masayo Igata
Michihiko Yoshida
Midori Suzuki
Mineo Kachita
Miyo Yamada
Motoaki Ishii
Noboru Sekikawa
Nobuko Takeo
Nobuyuki Fukushima
Norio Hikone
Reiko Hanada
Reiko Okuyama
Sadao Kikuchi
Sadao Tsukioka
Sanae Yamamoto
Satoru Saito
Shigeo Ozaki
Shigetsugu Yoshida
Shinya Tamura
Shûji Konno
Shun Nagasawa
Sumiko Naganuma
Takao Kasai
Takao Kurosawa
Taku Sugiyama
Tamae Matsusumi
Teruhito Ueguchi
Tetsuta Ikuno
Tomekichi Takeuchi
Toshio Hirata
Toyohei Horikawa
Tsutomu Tominaga
Tsuyoshi Ninomiya
Yasuo Otsuka
Yôko Katô
Yoshio Aiso
Youichi Otabe

Backgrounds:
Eiko Sugimoto
Kazuo Ozawa
Kimiko Saito
Mataji Urata
Saburo Yoki

Cinematography:
Harusato Otsuka
Kenji Sugiyama
Komei Ishikawa
Seigo Otsuka

Color:
Junko Shima
Koichi Maeba
Tokie Hayashi
Tsunehiro Okasako

Finish Check: Saburo Shinno

In-Between Animation:
Gisaburô Sugii
Rintaro
Takuo Kikuchi
Teruto Kamiguchi
Yoshio Teraji
Youichi Otabe

Original Drawings:
Akira Daikubara
Yasuji Mori

Photography:
Kanjiro Igusa
Shintaro Miyamoto

Planning:
Goro Kondaibo
Hideyuki Takahashi

Production manager: Seichi Moro

Recording: Yuko Shima

Trace:
Fumie Motohashi
Masako Miyazaki
Mitsuko Shindo
Nobuko Yoshida

 

Hideo Kinoshita as Chohakkai

Katsuko Ozaki as Kanzeon

Kinshiro Iwao as Gyu-mao

Kiyoshi Kawakubo as Kinkaku

Kiyoshi Komiyama as Son-goku

Kunihisa Takeda as Shaka-nyorai

Michiko Shirasaka as Shoryu

Nobuaki Sekine as Sanzo-hoshi

Noriko Shindou as Rinrin

Setsuo Shinoda as Sagojo

Shuichi Kazamatsuri as Ginkaku

Tamae Kato as Rasetsu-jo

Japanese companies 

Production: Toei Animation

English staff 
English cast 

Director: Lee Kresel

Script:
Goro Kontaibo
Lee Kresel
Lou Rusoff

Music: Les Baxter

Producer:
James H. Nicholson
Lou Rusoff
Samuel Z. Arkoff

Film Editing:
Laurette Odney
Salvatore Billitteri

Music Editor:
Eve Newman
George Brand

Orchestra Conductor: Albert Harris

Orchestral Conductor: Les Baxter

Presenter:
James H. Nicholson
Samuel Z. Arkoff

Sound Editor: Kay Rose

 

Arnold Stang as Lulipopo

Dodie Stevens as DeeDee the Monkey

Frankie Avalon as Alakazam

Jonathan Winters as Sir Quigley Broken Bottom

Sterling Holloway as Narrator

Jackie Joseph

English companies 

(none)
Italian cast 
Italian staff 
(none)

Arturo Dominici as Capo delle Pattuglie Galattiche

Cesare Polacco as Torta di Luna

Giorgio Capecchi as Merlino

Giuseppe Rinaldi as Amal

Glauco Onorato as Primo guerriero

Lauro Gazzolo as Narratore

Luigi Pavese as Re Scorfano

Massimo Turci as Ercolino

Renato Turi as Amo

Vinicio Sofia as Orco Porco delle ghiande

Vittorio Sanipoli as Padre della giapponesina

Italian companies 
(none)

German staff 
(none)
German cast 

Christian Tramitz as Sanzo

Pierre Peters-Arnolds as Alakazam / Son Goku

Julia Haacke

German companies 

Distributor: Orion

Publisher: Atlas Video

 
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