Presented by the U-M Center for Japanese Studies with additional support from Vault of Midnight.
THE ORIGINAL JAPANESE PRESENTATION!

One of the first documented commercial film adaptations of manga source material, this anime from OSAMU TEZUKA’s retelling of the ancient Chinese novel JOURNEY TO THE WEST (“Hsi-yu Chi”) follows a monkey king who learns the secrets of magic and the mastery of willpower that knowledge entails.

Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

1960 | Anime | 84 min | NR