Alakazam the Great!

1960 Animation

1h 28min

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.

Directed by	Daisaku Shirakawa, Taiji Yabushita
Written by	Goro Kontaibo, Lee Kresel
Original title	Saiyûki
Original lang.	Japanese, English
Country	Japan

Featuring the voices of

Jonathan Winters

Kiyoshi Komiyama

Noriko Shindô

Hideo Kinoshita

Setsuo Shinoda

Nobuaki Sekine

Kunihisa Takeda

Katsuko Ozaki

Michiko Shirasaka

Kinshirô Iwao

Tamae Kato

Shigeru Kawakubo

Shûichi Kazamatsuri

Frankie Avalon

Sterling Holloway

Jackie Joseph

Kiyoshi Kawakubo

Arnold Stang

Dodie Stevens

Peter Fernandez