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Monkey (孫悟空, Son Gokū), the title character, is described in the theme song as being "born from an egg on a mountain top", a stone egg, and thus he is a stone monkey, a skilled fighter who becomes a brash king of a monkey tribe, who, the song goes on to claim, was "the punkiest monkey that ever popped". [4]
The New Legends of Monkey is a fantasy adventure television series inspired by Monkey, a Japanese production from the 1970s and 1980s which garnered a cult following in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and South Africa. The Japanese production was based on the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. [2]
Journey to the West – Legends of the Monkey King (1999) Eternity: A Chinese Ghost Story (2003) Lotus Lantern (2005) The Fairies of Liaozhai (2007) Butterfly Lovers (2007) The Legend and the Hero (2007) The Legend and the Hero 2 (2009) Prelude of Lotus Lantern (2009) Ancient Legends (2010) Wu Cheng'en and Journey to the West (2010) Journey to ...
In flashback styled after 70s Chinese dramas (including the opening credits styled after the TV series Monkey), Sun Wukong and Niu Mowang attend a party for the Gods. While Niu Mowang is shy and awkward, Sun Wukong is more extroverted and uses his skills to help them get into the party so that Niu Mowang can ask Ao Guang, the Dragon King, to ...
A sequel, Journey to the West II, was broadcast in 1998, but the role of the Monkey King was played by Benny Chan instead, due to contract problems between Dicky Cheung and TVB. Cheung later reprised the role in another television series The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra (2002), which was broadcast on TVB but not produced by the station.
The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra (Chinese: 齊天大聖孫悟空) is a 2002 Hong Kong TV series based on the 16th-century novel Journey to the West. It is also a remake of the 1996 TVB version. This is the second Monkey King that is portrayed by Dicky Cheung , the other one being Journey to the West (1996).
Below is a list of actors and actresses that were part of the cast of the American comedy-drama television series Monk. The show's main stars included, at some point, Tony Shalhoub , Bitty Schram , Traylor Howard , Ted Levine , and Jason Gray-Stanford .
While the series started off with viewership nearly reaching 30%, its rating gradually sank, barely making it at 20% at one point; the last episode finished off with 24.7%. Rather than producing a second season, Fuji TV and Toho produced a feature film version of Saiyūki , [ 1 ] that was released in Japan on July 14, 2007.