×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Alakazam the Great (movie)

Have you seen this? want to / seen some / seen all

Alternative title:
Alakazam, el Grande (Spanish)
Journey to the West
Le tredici fatiche di Ercolino (Italian)
Saiyuki (Japanese)
The Enchanted Monkey
西遊記 (Japanese)
Genres: adventure, fantasy
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.
Watch Alakazam the Great on: Amazon VideoAmazon Video, JustWatch
User Ratings: 49 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 2 votes (sub:1, dub:1)
 Excellent: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Very good: 7 votes (dub:5, sub:2)
 Good: 10 votes (dub:4, sub:2, edit.dub:2, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 12 votes (sub:7, dub:4, others:1
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 So-so: 7 votes (sub:3, dub:2, edit.dub:1, others:1
1 German edited dub
)
 Not really good: 2 votes (dub:2)
 Weak: 6 votes (dub:3, sub:2, edit.dub:1)
 Bad: 1 vote (dub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 226 users, rank: #3622 (of 9860)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 6.102 (Decent), std. dev.: 1.8762, rank: #7160 (of 10016)
Weighted mean: 6.107 (Decent), rank: #7102 (of 10016) (seen all: 6.22 / seen some: 6.00 / won't finish: 2.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.394 (Decent+), rank: #5720 (of 7553)
Running time: 88 minutes
Vintage: 1960
Premiere date:
1960-08-14 (Japan)
1961-07-26 (United States)
Release dates: We have 2
Opening Theme:
"Ore wa Songoku" by Akiko Santou
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 1
Comment:
Although Osamu Tezuka is listed in the credits of this movie, he later confided that Toei added his name to the credits (with his permission) for marketing purposes only and that he was not involved in the production in any way. The movie was however based on his manga adaptation of the same story, and borrowed the designs and visual style from the manga.
News: Show:
Love Live! Film, Shirobako Win Tokyo Anime Award Festival's Top Prizes (Mar 21, 2016)
Chinese-Japanese Three Kingdoms Anime to Air in June (Apr 29, 2008)
Astro Boy not the First Anime (Jan 9, 2006)
Coming Soon in Japan (Feb 28, 1999)
Other articles: Show:
The Mike Toole Show - Anime At The Movies (Mar 27, 2011)
The Mike Toole Show - Join The Club (Nov 21, 2010)
The Mike Toole Show - Casshern In: Anime Remakes (Sep 26, 2010)
The Mike Toole Show - Tezuka Time (Sep 12, 2010)
The Mike Toole Show: Voice of Many Generations (Jul 18, 2010)
ANNtv - 2008-01-26 (Jan 26, 2008)
Answerman: Prize Package (Apr 9, 2001)
You can contribute information to this page, but first you must login or register

LaserDisc
    Alakazam the Great [Widescreen] [Dub] (LD) 1996-03-13

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director:
Daisaku Shirakawa
Taiji Yabushita
Screenplay:
Goro Kontaibo
Hideyuki Takahashi
Keinosuke Uegusa
Music: Ryoichi Hattori
Original creator: Osamu Tezuka
Original story: Cheng'en Wu (Journey to the West)
Art:
Hajime Numai
Koichi Maeba
Masaaki Yano
Animation Director:
Akira Okubara
Yasuji Mori
Producer: Hiroshi Ōkawa

Animation:
Akemi Ōta
Akinori Matsubara
Akira Daikubara
Atsuko Nakayama
Atsushi Takagi
Chikao Tera
Daikichirō Kusube
Eiko Saitō
Gizaburo Sugii
Hajime Iida
Haruko Kasai
Haruko Motoya
Hashio Kodama
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 Saitō
Kenzō 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
Shigeyuki Hayashi
Shinya Tamura
Shūji Konno
Shun Nagasawa
Sumiko Naganuma
Takao Kōzai
Takao Kurosawa
Taku Sugiyama
Tamae Matsusumi
Teruhito Ueguchi
Tetsuta Ikuno
Tomekichi Takeuchi
Toshio Hirata
Toyohei Horikawa
Tsutomu Tominaga
Tsuyoshi Ninomiya
Yasuo Ōtsuka
Yōichi Kotabe
Yōko Katō
Yoshio Aiso
Background Art:
Eiko Sugimoto
Kazuo Ozawa
Kimiko Saitō
Mataji Urata
Saburo Yoki
Cinematography:
Harusato Otsuka
Kenji Sugiyama
Komei Ishikawa
Seigo Otsuka
Color:
Junko Shima
Koichi Maeba
Nobuhiro Okasako
Tokie Hayashi
Finish Check: Saburo Shinno
In-Between Animation:
Gisaburō Sugii
Rintarō
Takuo Kikuchi
Yōichi Kotabe
Yoshio Teraji
Key Animation:
Akira Daikubara
Yasuji Mori
Photography:
Kanjiro Igusa
Shintaro Miyamoto
Planning:
Goro Kondaibo
Hideyuki Takahashi
Production manager: Seiichi Moro
Recording: Yuko Shima
Sound Effects: Yoneichi Kanō
Trace:
Fumie Motohashi
Masako Miyazaki
Mitsuko Shindo
Nobuko Yoshida
Kiyoshi Komiyama as Sun Wukong (Son Gokū)

Hideo Kinoshita as Zhu Bajie (Cho Hakkai)
Kinshirō Iwao as Bull Demon King (Gyūmaō)
Michiko Shirasaka as Shōryū
Nobuaki Sekine as Tang Sanzang (Sanzō Hōshi)
Noriko Shindō as Lin-Lin (Rinrin)
Setsuo Shinoda as Sha Wujing (Sa Gojō)
Tamae Katō as Princess Iron Fan (Rasetsujo)

Katsuko Ozaki as Guanyin (Kanzeon Bosatsu)
Kiyoshi Kawakubo as Golden Horned King (Kinkaku Daiō)
Kunihisa Takeda as Shakyamuni Buddha (Shaka Nyorai)
Shuichi Kazamatsuri as Silver Horned King (Ginkaku Daiō)
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 Editing:
Eve Newman
George Brand
Orchestra Conductor:
Albert Harris
Les Baxter
Presentation:
James H. Nicholson
Samuel Z. Arkoff
Sound Editor: Kay Rose
Peter Fernandez as Alakazam

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
Distributor: Image Entertainment (LaserDisc)
Licensed by: Orion
Spanish cast
Spanish staff
(none)
Alberto Gavira as Sir Quigley Broken Bottom
Guillermo Portillo Acosta as Shaka-nyorai
Juan Antonio Edwards as Alakazam / Son Goku
Rafael Alonso Naranjo Jr. as Alakazam (Spain dub)
Sylvia Garcel as DeeDee the Monkey

Carlos Revilla as Sir Quigley Broken Bottom (Spain dub)
Eduardo Moreno as Luripopota (Spain dub)
Fernando Nogueras as King Amo (Spain dub)
María Antonia Rodríguez as Didi (Spain dub)
María Antonieta de las Nieves as Pico Pico
Roberto Martín as Prince Amat (Spain dub)

Jose Luis Angulo as Narrator (Spain dub)
José Luis Baltanás as Merlin (Spain dub)
Miguel Zúñiga as Hercules (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Dubbing Studio: Tecnison (Spain dub)
Internet Streaming: Qubit.tv (dubbed; expired)
Italian staff
Italian cast
(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
Dubbing: SEFIT-CDC
German staff
German cast
(none)
Christian Tramitz as Sanzo
Pierre Peters-Arnolds as Alakazam / Son Goku

Julia Haacke
German companies
Distributor: Orion
Publisher: Atlas Video
Portuguese staff
Portuguese cast
(none)
Carlos Marques as Alakazam (old dub)
Oberdan Junior as Alakazan (new dub)

Carlos Seidl as Rei Amo (new dub)
Garcia Júnior as Príncipe Amat (new dub)
José Santacruz as Sir Quigley Broken Bottom (new dub)
Mauro Ramos as Max Lulipopo (new dub)
Miriam Fischer as DeeDee (new dub)

Ísis Koschdoski as Rainha Gruesome (new dub)
Leonel Abrantes as Herman (new dub)
Mario Jorge Andrade as Narrador (new dub)
Orlando Drummond as
Merlin (new dub)
Vermin (new dub)
Paulo Flores as Rei Gruesome (new dub)
Peterson Adriano as Filo Fester (new dub)
Selma Lopes as Rainha Amass (new dub)

Hamilton Ricardo (new dub)
Juliano Rosa (new dub)
Mauro Ramos (new dub)
Miguel Rosemberg (new dub)
Portuguese companies
Broadcaster:
Rede Globo (old dub)
Rede Manchete (new dub)
Dubbing Studio:
Cinecastro (old dub)
Herbert Richers (new dub)

This encyclopedia is collaboratively edited by the users of this site
DISCLAIMER add information report an error lookup sources

Compare this anime's credits with others

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Anime anthology