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Overview

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Writers:
Motomu Furuta (screenplay)
Hiroichi Fuse (screenplay)
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Contact:
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Seasons:
1 | 2 | unknown full episode list
Release Date:
1 October 1978 (Japan) more
Plot:
Monkey is the story by Wu Ch'êng-ên based on the ancient Chinese legend tracing the origins of Buddhism... more
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User Comments:
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Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 5 of 14)
Peter Woodthorpe ... Pigsy (14 episodes, 1978-1979)
Masaaki Sakai ... Sun Wu-Kong (Monkey) (13 episodes, 1978)
Toshiyuki Nishida ... Zhu Ba-Jie (Pigsy season 1) (13 episodes, 1978)
Shirô Kishibe ... Sha Wu-Jing (Sandy) (13 episodes, 1978)
Masako Natsume ... Xuanzang Sanzang (Tripitaka) (13 episodes, 1978)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Monkey Magic" (Australia) (informal English title)
"Monkey" (International: English title) (dubbed version)
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Country:
Japan
Language:
Japanese
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:PG | Australia:M (some episodes) | Australia:PG (some episodes) | Australia:MA (some episodes)
Filming Locations:
China more
Company:
Kokusai Hoei more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Made with an ensemble cast and on low budget. Sets are clearly recycled from episode to episode, and the supporting cast can be the King one episode, a demon the next, and a gambler in the one after that. more
Quotes:
Monkey: [after finding out that Buddha was female] I always thought Buddha was a fella! more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) more

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10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
From the Cosmic Egg..., 21 November 2000
Author: Freki from New Jersey

'Monkey!' was obviously created, imported, & then overdubbed by mad geniuses. It's cheesey, it's deranged, it's surreal, it's brilliantly, hysterically funny. And it's better now than when I was 9, which is astonishing.

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