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 |
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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]