Monkey

Monkey

1978 2 Seasons ⭐ 8.147
Action & Adventure Comedy Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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.

Seasons

1. Monkey Goes Wild about Heaven

1978-10-01

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 …

2. Monkey Turns Nursemaid

1978-10-08

Buddha sends a messenger, the Boddhisattva Kuan-yin the Compassionate, to find a holy man to make the journey from China to India to fetch the large vehicle scriptures. She choose…

3. The Great Journey Begins

1978-10-15

Tripitaka and the ever-impatient Monkey begin their perilous journey. Arriving at a village terrorised by a greedy and lustful monster, Monkey thus faces the wrath of Pigsy and hi…

4. Monkey Swallows the Universe

1978-10-22

Monkey, Pigsy, Sandy, Tripitaka and the horse enter a land ruled by the demonic Golden Horn and his wife, Silver Horn. Bewitched by a beautiful lady, Pigsy discovers that all is n…

5. The Power of Youth

1978-10-29

In his mountain kingdom, the immature King of Youth dictates that everything old is useless. When the pilgrims approach, he decides to kidnap Tripitaka to gain the attention of He…

6. Even Monsters Can be People

1978-11-05

When Monkey kills a girl and her elderly parents, Tripitaka is left with no choice but to punish him and send him back home to his mountain of fruit and flowers. No one believes M…

7. The Beginning of Wisdom

1978-11-12

Desperate for water due to the intense heat, the pilgrims find that the nearest village is completely dried up. The local water monster, who has a taste for the souls of boys, had…

8. Pigsy Woos a Widow

1978-11-19

When Monkey saves a pretty widow from the Demon Spirit of Great Snakes, amorous Pigsy falls snout over trotters in love with her, but she only has eyes for the celibate boy priest…

9. What Monkey Calls the Dog-Woman

1978-11-26

When the magistrate Lord Li's stepdaughter is kidnapped by bandits, Monkey reluctantly takes on the job of catching them. He soon learns that the bandits are not what they seem, b…

10. Pigsy's in the Well

1978-12-03

Tripitaka is visited in a dream by the restless spirit of the deceased king of the land of Cockcrow. He tells Tripitaka he was murdered by a Taoist magician and thrown into a well…

11. The Difference Between Night & Day

1978-12-10

An invisible wall separates the land of night from the land of day. The blood-sucking Queen of Night terrorises the inhabitants of her land, while everyone in the land of day is f…

12. Pearls Before Swine

1978-12-17

The once-prosperous land of Codslow is ruled by three animal-strength immortals, and its enslaved people are dying of hunger. The immortals depend on pearls, paper and wine for th…

13. The Minx and the Slug

1978-12-24

A village headman and his wife grieve for their beautiful daughter Hai-Min who disappeared a year ago. Lecherous Pigsy offers to go and look for her. He finds a slug monster who s…

14. Catfish, Saint and the Shape-Changer

1979-01-07

The pilgrims enter a volcanic land that is plagued by earthquakes caused by the frequent quarrelling of two local demons; a catfish demon and a faceless shape-changer demon, who c…

15. Monkey Meets the Demon Digger

1979-01-14

While climbing a mountain, the pilgrims discover a man who's been digging a tunnel through the mountain for the past twenty-two years, to provide an easier route for travellers. E…

16. The Most Monstrous Monster

1979-01-21

Desperate to please Chun-Shou, the woman he hopes to marry, the unhappy King of Unicorns promises to find a new toy for her spoilt brat son, little Chen. When he hears about Monke…

17. Truth and the Grey Gloves Devil

1979-01-28

Following a terrible sandstorm, the pilgrims find a village where everyone has been killed by the evil Grey Gloves Devil, a magician with the power to hypnotise and control anyone…

18. Land for the Locusts

1979-02-04

As the pilgrims continue their journey, Monkey sees that a nearby village is being terrorised by swarms of locusts, and they're coming in their direction. Led by the power-hungry …

19. The Vampire Master

1979-02-11

The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Buddha's Law invites Tripitaka and his disciples to stay as his honoured guests. He tells them of the difficulty in controlling the black magi…

20. Outrageous Coincidences

1979-02-18

To escape from a deadly blizzard in the Himalayan foothills, Monkey, Pigsy, Sandy and Tripitaka take refuge in a small cave. With Tripitaka's death from starvation looking imminen…

21. Pigsy, King and God

1979-02-25

The pilgrims arrive at the Kingdom of Red Hog, where pigs are sacred. The people hail Pigsy as their new King and God. Tripitaka discovers that the current king is a disguised dem…

22. Village of the Undead

1979-03-04

In a deserted village, the evil male demon Wun-Lung and three beautiful witches await the arrival of Tripitaka, Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy. If they can make the four travellers belie…

23. Two Little Blessings

1979-03-11

Forty years before the pilgrims' journey to India, two lovers Chun-Ying and Yu-Lee disobey the God of Fertility Ju-Lee by eloping together - love is forbidden in his country. As p…

24. The Fires of Jealousy

1979-03-18

The pilgrims enter the Kingdom of Lo-Chun, the Queen of Fire, where they are prevented from continuing their journey by the active volcanoes in the Fire and Flame mountain range t…

25. The Country of Nightmares

1979-03-25

On their way to India, the pilgrims must pass through the Land of Nightmares, inhabited by all the legions of Hell, bad demons and wicked spirits. All humans who go there are eate…

26. The End of the Way

1979-04-01

Tripitaka and his disciples are just a few days away from reaching India - they can clearly see the Gold Temple of the Thunderclap ahead. The King of All Geological Ages appears a…

Top Cast

Masaaki Sakai
Masaaki Sakai
Masako Natsume
Masako Natsume
Shiro Kishibe
Shiro Kishibe
Tonpei Hidari
Tonpei Hidari
Shunji Fujimura
Shunji Fujimura
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Takayuki Akutagawa
David Collings
David Collings
Gareth Armstrong
Gareth Armstrong
Peter Woodthorpe
Peter Woodthorpe
Andrew Sachs
Andrew Sachs
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Maria Warburg

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