Back Alakazam – König der Tiere German آلاکازام بزرگ Persian Alakazam, le petit Hercule French Szaijúki (film) Hungarian Le 13 fatiche di Ercolino Italian 西遊記 (1960年の映画) Japanese Alakazam the Great Portuguese Alakazam the Great Russian Alakazam Turkish Alakazam the Great Ukrainian
| Alakazam the Great | |
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| Directed by | Taiji Yabushita Daisaku Shirakawa |
| Written by | Keinosuke Uekusa |
| Based on | Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en Boku no Son Gokū by Osamu Tezuka |
| Produced by | Hiroshi Okawa |
| Starring | Kiyoshi Komiyama Noriko Shindō Hideo Kinoshita Setsuo Shinoda |
| Cinematography | Harusato Otsuka Komei Ishikawa Kenji Sugiyama |
| Edited by | Shintaro Miyamoto Kanjiro Igusa |
| Music by | Ryoichi Hattori |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toei Company (Japan) American International Pictures (United States) |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Alakazam the Great, known in Japan as Saiyūki (西遊記, lit. "Journey to the West"), is a 1960 Japanese anime musical film, heavily based on the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. It was one of the earliest anime films to be released in the United States.[1] Osamu Tezuka was named as a director of the film by Toei Company, but Tezuka later stated that the only time he was in the studio was to pose for publicity photos.[2] His involvement in promoting the film, however, led to his interest in animation.[3]
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