2 Season
52 Episode
Monkey - Season 1 Episode 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.
- Year: 1980
- Country: China, Japan
- Genre: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Studio: Nippon TV
- Keyword: buddhism, martial arts, kung fu, based on novel or book, mythology, legend, mongolia, monkey, journey to the west, saiyuki, chinese mythology
- Director:
- Cast: Masaaki Sakai, Masako Natsume, Shiro Kishibe, Toshiyuki Nishida, Takayuki Akutagawa, Shunji Fujimura