The Legend of the White Serpent (1956)

Drama
Romance
Fantasy
Horror

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

Cast

Xu Xian
Ryō Ikebe
The White Lady
Yoshiko Yamaguchi
S Sumiko Koizumi
Yoshiko Miyata
Official B
Ikio Sawamura
Bokuzen Hidari
Xiaoqing
Kaoru Yachigusa
Musei Tokugawa
Kichijirō Ueda
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Li Gong Fu
Haruo Tanaka
Eijirō Tōno
Official A
Yoshio Kosugi
Oil salesman
Akira Tani

Crew

Executive Producer
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Screenplay
Toshio Yasumi
Story
F Fusao Hayashi
Director of Photography
M Mitsuo Miura
Art Direction
R Ryotaro Mitsubayashi
Production Design
M Makoto Sono
Sound Recordist
H Hisashi Shimonaga
Lighting Technician
R Rokuro Ishikawa
Original Music Composer
Ikuma Dan
Special Effects Supervisor
Eiji Tsuburaya
Special Effects
Akira Watanabe
Special Effects
H Hiroshi Mukoyama
Special Effects
M Masao Shirota
Editor
K Kôichi Iwashita
Director
Shirō Toyoda
Assistant Camera
Hajime Koizumi