Monkey King Journey To The West 1986

Many years later sun wukong returns defeats the demon king and takes back the cave.

Monkey king journey to the west 1986. The english language version of the show was produced by cinar. Inspiration for the monkey king s origins predate the novel and can be traced back both to the monkey god hanuman from the hindu epic the ramayana as well as from the song dynasty. Antagonists demon king of confusion. In the novel he is a monkey born from a stone who acquires supernatural powers through taoist practi.

Basically journey to the west is about tang san zang s journey to the west duh and the difficulties he and his disciples face in between. Cctv released the entire series online on youtube and in addition has an edited ve. It first aired on teletoon in canada in 2000 and was later aired on the cookie jar toons block on this tv in. Journey to the west chinese.

The demon king of confusion 混世魔王 is a demon king who seizes control of the water curtain cave 水簾洞 when sun wukong left to learn magic from subhuti he chases away the primates and occupies the cave with his minions. Journey to the west is a chinese television series adapted from the classic 16th century novel of the same title. There are 26 episodes in total with a duration of about 22 minutes each along with a 75 minute prequel television film. Unadapted portions of the original story were later covered in the second season which was released in 1999.

The series was first broadcast on cctv in china on 1 october 1986. As a matter of fact wu cheng en wrote journey to the west to criticize china s political system and society. Nonetheless this fictional retelling focuses on san zang s first disciple the monkey king sun wu kong who captured readers hearts and imagination with his bold daring and mischievous personality. Xī yóu jì is a chinese novel published in the 16th century during the ming dynasty and attributed to wu cheng en it is one of the four great classical novels of chinese literature it has been described as arguably the most popular literary work in east asia.

He was also very rebellious. It is overflowing with magic demons gods immortals. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. The series became an instant classic in china and was praised for being one of the most original and faithful interpretations.

It is based on the 16th century novel journey to the west. Journey to the west legends of the monkey king is a 2000 chinese canadian animated series produced by china central television and cinar.