Monkey - Season 1 - Eps 1: Monkey Goes Wild about Heaven
Mischievous King Monkey is summoned to Heaven, where he steals the heavenly peaches, and eats them to gain immortality. He fights two of the Emperor's officials, and all three of them are expelled to Earth. Monkey gets imprisoned under a mountain of rocks, while the other two are transformed into a pig monster (Pigsy) and a water monster (Sandy). Buddha says that a holy man must be sent to fetch holy scriptures from India, to save the world.
About Monkey
Title: Monkey
First Air Date: 1978-10-01
Last Air Date: 1980-05-04
Status: Ended
Rating: 8.5/10 (from 14 votes)
Language: JA
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 52
Network: Nippon TV
Genres: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production Companies: Nippon Television Network Corporation, International Television Films, Inc., Tsuburaya Productions, Toho Eizo Bijutsu
Synopsis
Buddhist priest Tripitaka and his three disciples Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy, travel from China to India to fetch the Buddhist scriptures. They have been sent by Buddha, and getting these scriptures will bring peace to the people of the world.
Cast
Masaaki Sakai
Monkey
Masako Natsume
Tripitaka
Shiro Kishibe
Sandy
Toshiyuki Nishida
Pigsy
Takayuki Akutagawa
Narrator
Shunji Fujimura
Horse
David Collings
Voice of Monkey
Gareth Armstrong
Voice of Sandy
Peter Woodthorpe
Voice of Pigsy
Miriam Margolyes
Narator
