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Monkey (TV series)

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, also known by its English title Monkey, also commonly referred to as Monkey Magic (the show's title song), is a Japanese television drama based on the 16th century Chinese novel, Journey to the West, by Wu Cheng'en. [1]

71 relations: A-side and B-side, Action fiction, Adventure fiction, Andrew Sachs, Ao Guang, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, Bodhisattva, Buddhism, Burt Kwouk, Chang'e, Channel 4, Comedic genres, Cult following, David Collings, David Weir (writer), Discogs, Dubbing (filmmaking), Emperor Taizong of Tang, Enlightenment in Buddhism, Fantasy, Gandhara, Gandhara (song), Gareth Armstrong, Godiego, Gods and demons fiction, Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture, Guanyin, Heaven, Holy and Bright, Hornet, IMDb, Inner Mongolia, Jade Emperor, Japanese language, Japanese television drama, Journey to the West, Jun Fukuda, List of media adaptations of Journey to the West, Magic Monkey, Mamoru Sasaki, Masaaki Sakai, Masako Natsume, Miriam Margolyes, Monkey (novel), Monkey Magic (song), Monkey Swallows the Universe, NHK, Nippon Columbia, Nippon TV, ..., Northwest China, Oricon, Peter Woodthorpe, Recovery (TV series), Ruyi Jingu Bang, Sha Wujing, Shangdi, Shiro Kishibe, Shunji Fujimura, Sun Wukong, Tang Sanzang, Taoism, Tathāgata, Television New Zealand, The New Legends of Monkey, Toshiyuki Nishida, Triple J, UK Singles Chart, Voice acting, Wu Cheng'en, Zhu Bajie. Expand index (21 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Action fiction

Action fiction is the literary genre that includes spy novels, adventure stories, tales of terror and intrigue ("cloak and dagger"), and mysteries.

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Adventure fiction

Adventure fiction is fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.

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Andrew Sachs

Andreas Siegfried "Andrew" Sachs (7 April 1930 – 23 November 2016) was a British actor.

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Ao Guang

Ao Guang is the Dragon King of the East Sea in Chinese religion.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bodhisattva

In Buddhism, Bodhisattva is the Sanskrit term for anyone who has generated Bodhicitta, a spontaneous wish and compassionate mind to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings. Bodhisattvas are a popular subject in Buddhist art.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Burt Kwouk

Herbert Tsangtse Kwouk, OBE (18 July 1930 – 24 May 2016) was a British actor, known for his role as Cato in the Pink Panther films.

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Chang'e

Chang'e or Chang-o, originally known as Heng'e, is the Chinese goddess of the Moon.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Comedic genres

Comedy may be divided into multiple genres based on the source of humor, the method of delivery, and the context in which it is delivered.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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David Collings

David Collings (born 4 June 1940) is an English actor.

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David Weir (writer)

David Weir (11 February 1934 – 25 June 2011) was a British writer, whose work was used primarily in television and film.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Dubbing (filmmaking)

Dubbing, mixing or re-recording is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production in which additional or supplementary recordings are "mixed" with original production sound to create the finished soundtrack.

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Emperor Taizong of Tang

Emperor Taizong of Tang (28January 598 10July 649), previously Prince of Qin, personal name Li Shimin, was the second emperor of the Tang dynasty of China, ruling from 626 to 649.

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Enlightenment in Buddhism

The English term enlightenment is the western translation of the term bodhi, "awakening", which was popularised in the Western world through the 19th century translations of Max Müller.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often without any locations, events, or people referencing the real world.

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Gandhara

Gandhāra was an ancient kingdom situated along the Kabul and Swat rivers of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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Gandhara (song)

is a song by Japanese rock band Godiego, serving as their 7th single.

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Gareth Armstrong

Gareth S. Armstrong (born 25 June 1948) is a British actor, director, teacher and writer.

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Godiego

is a Japanese rock band, consisting of pianist and composer Mickie Yoshino, vocalist Yukihide Takekawa, guitarist Takami Asano, bassist Steve Fox, and drummer Tommy Snyder.

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Gods and demons fiction

Gods and demons fiction is a subgenre of fantasy fiction that revolves around the deities, immortals, and monsters of Chinese mythology.

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Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture

Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture is the original motion picture soundtrack for the 1978 film Grease.

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Guanyin

Guanyin or Guan Yin is an East Asian bodhisattva associated with compassion and venerated by Mahayana Buddhists and followers of Chinese folk religions, also known as the "Goddess of Mercy" in English.

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Heaven

Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, or transcendent place where beings such as gods, angels, spirits, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or live.

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Holy and Bright

is a song by Japanese rock band Godiego, serving as the band's 12th single.

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Hornet

Hornets (insects in the genera Vespa and Provespa) are the largest of the eusocial wasps, and are similar in appearance to their close relatives yellowjackets.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region or Nei Mongol Autonomous Region (Ѳвѳр Монголын Ѳѳртѳѳ Засах Орон in Mongolian Cyrillic), is one of the autonomous regions of China, located in the north of the country.

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Jade Emperor

The Jade Emperor (or 玉帝) in Chinese culture, traditional religions and myth is one of the representations of the first god (太帝). In Daoist theology he is the assistant of Yuanshi Tianzun, who is one of the Three Pure Ones, the three primordial emanations of the Tao.

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Japanese language

is an East Asian language spoken by about 128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.

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Japanese television drama

, also called, are television programs that are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily.

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Journey to the West

Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming dynasty and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.

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Jun Fukuda

Jun Fukuda (福田純, February 17, 1923 Manchuria - December 3, 2000) was a Japanese film director, writer and producer.

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List of media adaptations of Journey to the West

Journey to the West, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, was written in the 16th century and attributed to Wu Cheng'en.

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Magic Monkey

or Magic Monkey is a soundtrack released by Godiego for the television show of the same name, known as Monkey in the west.

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Mamoru Sasaki

was a Japanese TV and film screenwriter.

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Masaaki Sakai

is a popular Japanese performer from Tokyo.

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Masako Natsume

was a Japanese actress from Tokyo.

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Miriam Margolyes

Miriam Margolyes, (born 18 May 1941) is an English-Australian actress and voice artist.

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Monkey (novel)

Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China, more often known as simply Monkey, is an abridged translation by Arthur Waley of the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en of the Ming dynasty.

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Monkey Magic (song)

is a song by Japanese rock band Godiego, serving as their 8th single.

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Monkey Swallows the Universe

Monkey Swallows the Universe (MSTU) were an acoustic/indie band from Sheffield, England.

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NHK

is Japan's national public broadcasting organization.

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Nippon Columbia

, often pronounced Korombia,, is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as.

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Nippon TV

, doing business as Nippon TV, is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company.

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Northwest China

Northwestern China includes the autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Ningxia and the provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai.

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Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan.

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Peter Woodthorpe

Peter Woodthorpe (25 September 1931 – 12 August 2004) was an English film, television and voice actor who supplied the voice of Gollum in the 1978 Bakshi version of ''The Lord of the Rings'' and BBC's 1981 radio serial.

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Recovery (TV series)

Recovery was a music and youth-oriented television series that was broadcast by ABC TV in Australia.

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Ruyi Jingu Bang

Ruyi Jingu Bang, or simply Ruyi Bang or Jingu Bang, is the poetic name of a magical staff wielded by the immortal monkey Sun Wukong in the 16th-century classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.

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Sha Wujing

Shā Wùjìng is one of the three disciples of the Buddhist pilgrim Tang Sanzang in the novel Journey to the West written by Wu Cheng'en in the Ming dynasty, although versions of his character predate the Ming novel.

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Shangdi

Shangdi, also written simply, "Emperor", is the Chinese term for "Supreme Deity" or "Highest Deity" in the theology of the classical texts, especially deriving from Shang theology and finding an equivalent in the later Tian ("Heaven" or "Great Whole") of Zhou theology.

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Shiro Kishibe

is a Japanese actor from Kyoto.

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Shunji Fujimura

was a Japanese actor from Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan.

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Sun Wukong

Sun Wukong, also known as the Monkey King, is a fictional figure who features in body of legends, which can be traced back to the period of the Song dynasty.

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Tang Sanzang

Tang Sanzang, based on the historical Buddhist monk Xuanzang, is a central character in the novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en.

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Taoism

Taoism, also known as Daoism, is a religious or philosophical tradition of Chinese origin which emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao (also romanized as ''Dao'').

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Tathāgata

Tathāgata is a Pali and Sanskrit word; Gotama Buddha uses it when referring to himself in the Pāli Canon.

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Television New Zealand

Television New Zealand (Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a state-owned television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region.

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The New Legends of Monkey

The New Legends of Monkey is a television series inspired by Monkey, a Japanese production from the 1970s and 80s which garnered a cult following in New Zealand, Australia, the U.K. and South Africa.

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Toshiyuki Nishida

is a Japanese actor.

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Triple J

Triple J (often triple j) is a government-funded, national Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 34 which began broadcasting in January 1975.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Voice acting

Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs or providing voices to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user.

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Wu Cheng'en

Wu Cheng'en (c. 1500–1582Shi Changyu (1999). "Introduction." in trans. W.J.F. Jenner, Journey to the West, volume 1. Seventh Edition. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. pp. 1–22. or 1505–1580), courtesy name Ruzhong (汝忠), was a Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty, and is considered by many to be the author of Journey to the West, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

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Zhu Bajie

Zhu Bajie, also named Zhu Wuneng, is one of the three helpers of Tang Sanzang and a major character of the novel Journey to the West.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)

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