| The White Snake Enchantress | |
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| Directed by | Taiji Yabushita |
| Screenplay by | Taiji Yabushita |
| Story by | Shin Uehara |
| Based on | Legend of the White Snake |
| Produced by | Hiroshi Ôkawa |
| Starring | Hisaya Morishige Mariko Miyagi |
| Narrated by | Hisaya Morishige |
| Cinematography | Takamitsu Tsukahara |
| Edited by | Shinataro Miyamoto |
| Music by | Chuji Kinoshita Hajime Kaburagi Masayoshi Ikeda |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toei Company |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The White Snake Enchantress (白蛇伝, Hakujaden, Legend of the White Serpent) is a Japanese animated fantasy film. It is the first color anime feature film and Toei Animation's first theatrical feature film, released in 1958. It was one of the first three anime films to be released in America, under the title Panda and the Magic Serpent, premiering in 1961, the month after Magic Boy.[1] It is also known variously as The Great White Snake and The Tale of the White Serpent. In April 2019, a restored version of the film was selected to be shown in the Cannes Classics section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
- ^ "Magic Boy (1959)". IMDbPro. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
- ^ "Cannes Classics 2019". Festival de Cannes. 26 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2019.