Monkey Magic video clips - Enjoy
Some of my favourite clips from the Monkey series - I'll be uploading more on a regular basis (or at least thats the plan !!).
Clip one - Monkey fights Pigsy at Cloud Ladder Cave on Mount Fu-Ling
Clip two - Monkey gets his Magic Wishing Staff and a meeting with the outrageously 'flirty' Dragon Princess
Clip three - Monkey Tribute video but together by me! Background music is a bangin' remix of AC/DC classic ' Highway to Hell' - seemed like the logical choice at the time! It's a little bit old and crusty - it was done some time ago - but captures the essence of the show quite well (i think).
Clip four - Monkey's Taoist magician transformattion
Clip five - '500 years under a mountain.. i'm dying for a good fight' - need i say more?
Clip six - Monkey tricks Pigsy into having a little sing song - Tripitaka is not impressed.
Clip seven - While fighting the Ghost Tiger Leader, Monkey 'takes one in the Goolies'.
Clip seven - The lazy swine thinks his luck is in when the yocals crown him 'King Pigsy' - it doesn't last long !
Clip eight - Sandy creates a 'disguise' for Tripitakla which is shabby to say the least. Monkey gives the holy fool a makeover that has Pigsy drooling!
Clip nine - The water of small blessings - has men doing things that men just shouldn't be able to do.
Clip ten - Slugs - Yuk - 'nuff said
Clip eleven - The disciples take 'the Test' to decide their guest status. Monkey was good, pigsy was bad, Sandy was worse - no change there then!
Clip twelve - Monkey goes searching for the 'idiot priest'.
News
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February 15TH 2006 - BBC News 24.
Monkey magic casts spell in Asia.
An ambitious remake of Japan's most successful television drama Saiyuki (Monkey) is causing a stir across Asia.
The new version of the 1978 drama broke ratings records last month with one in three Japanese viewers tuning in.
Companies in Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore have secured rights and makers Fuji TV have had inquiries from Thailand, China and Malaysia.
It is based on a 16th Century Chinese myth following hero Monkey's journey to India to obtain Buddhist scriptures.
The fantasy drama, first broadcast by Japan's Nippon TV Network, was a mix of lavish special effects, witty performances and martial arts.
The remake has remained faithful to many of the original elements - the fighting stick that shrinks to fit inside the human ear and the magical cloud that Monkey uses to travel great distances.
Fuji Television's most significant decision was to cast Shingo Katori as the show's hero.
Mr Katori is one of five members of SMAP - one of Japan's most popular boy bands. The Japanese heart-throb will be the first actor to play Monkey after Masaaki Sakai more than 25 years ago.
Modern Monkey
However, Monkey purists may be disappointed by the new version. The opening scene of each old episode that retold the legend of his birth from a stone egg on a mountain has been dropped.
The scene where Monkey achieves immortality by gorging himself on 9,000-year-old peaches will also not be included.
A dubbed version of the original was shown in the UK on BBC Two in 1981.
An undisclosed British TV company has secured the rights to the new 11-episode remake and will broadcast the show later this year, reports say.