--- title: 'The Legend of the White Serpent (1956)' type: 'film' director: 'Shirō Toyoda' released: '1956-01-01' runtime_minutes: 103 genres: - 'Fantasy' countries: - 'Hong Kong' - 'Japan' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-legend-of-the-white-serpent-1956' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051439/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Legend of the White Serpent (1956) 1956 · 103 min · Fantasy · Hong Kong, Japan ## Synopsis The Legend of the White Serpent is a 1956 Japanese romantic fantasy film directed by Shirō Toyoda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. Adapted from the Chinese fairy tale Pai-she Chuan and the stories Story of a White Snake and White Woman's Magic by Fusao Hayashi, it stars Ryō Ikebe as Xu Xian, Shirley Yamaguchi as Bai-niang, and Kaoru Yachigusa as Xiao-qing. Set during the Song dynasty, the film follows Xu Xian, a young medicine shop apprentice, who becomes involved with Bai-niang, a mysterious woman with supernatural abilities. Their relationship leads to magical and moral conflicts involving villagers, a Taoist monk, and a local moneylender. ## Credits - **Director:** [Shirō Toyoda](https://cinepixo.com/people/shiro-toyoda) - **Original Music Composer:** [Ikuma Dan](https://cinepixo.com/people/ikuma-dan) ## Cast - [Kichijirō Ueda](https://cinepixo.com/people/kichijiro-ueda) - [Haruo Tanaka](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruo-tanaka) - [Bokuzen Hidari](https://cinepixo.com/people/bokuzen-hidari) - [Hisaya Morishige](https://cinepixo.com/people/hisaya-morishige) - [Eijirō Tōno](https://cinepixo.com/people/eijiro-tono) - [Kaoru Yachigusa](https://cinepixo.com/people/kaoru-yachigusa) - [Ryō Ikebe](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryo-ikebe) - [Musei Tokugawa](https://cinepixo.com/people/musei-tokugawa) - [Haruo Nakajima](https://cinepixo.com/people/haruo-nakajima) - [Yoshiko Yamaguchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshiko-yamaguchi) - [Yoshio Kosugi](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshio-kosugi) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-legend-of-the-white-serpent-1956 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7746839); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.