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. 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.