Born from a stone, the extraordinary monkey 'Sun Wukong' becomes the king of his kind. Yet, unsatisfied with this, he acquires the art of immortality and the magical staff, Ruyi Jingu Bang, becoming a fearless being with no rival in the world. However, gradually falling into arrogance, he wreaks havoc in the Heavenly Realm. Eventually subdued by the Buddha, Sun Wukong is imprisoned beneath a rocky mountain for five hundred years. He is later freed upon meeting Xuanzang, a high monk of the Tang Dynasty. Together with Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing, he embarks on a pilgrimage to Tianzhu (India), enduring all manner of adventures and trials along the way.
Directed by Park Young-il, 〈Sun Wukong〉 is Korea's fourth feature-length animated film. It is based on the classic novel Journey to the West, attributed to Wu Cheng'en of the Ming Dynasty and inspired by a Tang monk's historical journey to obtain Buddhist scriptures. Originally released under the title Princess Seonhwa and Sun Wukong, it was later reintroduced simply as Sun Wukong. As the first Korean animated feature to adopt the CinemaScope format, it is highly regarded as a valuable historical artifact that showcases the bold technical experiments and achievements of Korean animation in the 1960s.
This screening version is the result of a 4K digital restoration completed in 2025, utilizing incomplete 35mm image and 17.5mm audio original negative films collected by the Korean Film Archive in 1981. Due to the loss of the second of its nine original reels, the film—which originally had a running time of 67 minutes upon its 1968 release—now remains at 51 minutes.

[Lecture]
- September 5 (Sat), 4:30 PM, following the screening of Son O-gong
- Speaker: Han Tae-sik, CEO of JoongAng Animation