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The Tale of the White Serpent (1958) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1958 · 79 mins · Japanese
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- Directed by
- Taiji Yabushita
- Starring
- Hisaya Morishige, Mariko Miyagi
An adventurous panda, a dragon god and an evil serpent set the stage. Young Xu‑Xian frees a tiny snake, not knowing it is the snake goddess Bai‑Niang who loves him. As adults, she becomes human and seeks him, but a wizard mistakes her for a vampire and banishes Xu‑Xian. His loyal pandas, Panda and Mimi, lead an animal gang to rescue him.
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