Thank you so much for all wonderful comments from out of Japan! How nice to know we enjoyed watching the same TV program in different countries, culture and backgrounds. I’m happy we shared the same time😊 Many Japanese at this time watched and still love this drama including all actors and music.
I loved watching this as a kid in the 80’s, and I still do….brilliant stuff!
@世捨て人-w8r6 жыл бұрын
良い時代だったな🎵また戻りたい。
@jamieevans6395 Жыл бұрын
We had this show early 80s in the uk we loved it❤
@georgeowain2 ай бұрын
But not all episodes I heard.
@andrewparkin403621 күн бұрын
This was true, the UK had 13 episodes cut from the broadcast we all saw, I only recently found this out so have bought the restored Blu-ray box set with all 52 episodes (this includes the 13 lost ones which the original English voice actors where possible & some clever voice people who could sound similar dubbed the remaining 13 into English) just finished the last episode of season 1 today and loving every bit of it again.
Was shown this show in the 2000s by my mum growing up. Really enjoyed it.
@ninan79343 жыл бұрын
It was big in Australia in the 80s. Used to watch it after school. Glad it’s on Netflix now!
@izzymurati19873 жыл бұрын
I watched all the episodes on Netflix
@danielwatson3273 Жыл бұрын
Every kid in the UK knew these characters, can't tell you how much of a big deal this show was, absolutely loved it.
@davecoalwood94878 ай бұрын
It was the absolute bollocks eh Dan? I'm 50 now- Where's it all gone? 😂
@makigami7266 ай бұрын
@@davecoalwood9487いいから黙れ🤐
@SegaStation Жыл бұрын
For anyone outside of the UK you cannot underestimate how big and popular this TV series was back in the early 80s. I remember being in primary school and playing Monkey at break times with kids arguing over who was going to be who. Funnily, Tripitaka was always the favourite as she could control everyone with two fingers!!! I'll never lose this show, and now 40 odd years later I have the full boxset and still watch it.
@deradler7571 Жыл бұрын
It was the same in Australia.
@thearmchairspacemanOG Жыл бұрын
well, why not whistle up a cloud we can ALL ride on eh? :( LOL ;) (pigsy quote.. right? lol)
@HemIock11 ай бұрын
BBC 2 on a Friday I think, followed by Tarzan with Johnny Weissmuller
@xr6lad8 ай бұрын
There’s more to the world than the U.K. and it was popular in other places outside the U.K.
@oedipamaas20673 ай бұрын
just got my dad the blu ray for his 60 somethingth
久高明美 Don't know what any of that writing means but I like it!
@TD-uu3ds6 жыл бұрын
I don't still feel this sounds old-fashioned. Godaigo is amazing!
@ajaxt93336 жыл бұрын
Watched this on friday evenings when i was 10 back in 1980, had tea, then cub scouts, making campfire sausages,gluing fingers together making airfix planes, and singing ging gang gooley songs and getting up to no good with my mates.. Best childhood days..Brings back a flood of memories.Brilliant
@Videomaker-pz4xm6 жыл бұрын
that's a terrible copy of friday the 13th the film was 1980 the week was friday on the title and camping similar to friday the 13th
It was made by a Japanese because when it was made, it was already 100s of years old and was already one of Chinas 4 great classical novels and had already spread through out all of Asia. This Japanese version only got English dubbing and licensed in the West, instead of the Chinese version which most people consider to be just as good if not better and also came out in the 80s. Of course china was still very poor in the 70/80s and also not an Western ally and communist country. that has a lot to do with why chinese productions aren't as widespread in the Western culture and psyche. That, and the fact that China alone has more people than all of the west and Japan combined and make up 20% of humanity itself already so China doesn't need to spread to the west to be big or popular. Just china and east/south east Asia/india alone is 50% of the world already. West is only like 10-15%. Miniscule and irrelevant. they just had money back then but today we see that that was an aberration and cannot last. Today China has developed greatly in all aspects and is taking back its rightful place at the top of the world. Not just money k military or technology but also culturally. Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese written language etc all originally came from Chinese. Japan still uses Chinese characters till this day, and Korea too although they've replaced much of it with their own written system. That's what Kanji, Hanja etc are. Chinese characters..all their historical records are all in Chinese because that's what they all used back in the day for centuries/millenia. Chinese influence on east Asia cannot be understated. It is too influential, from language itself to religion to philosophy to technology to art and culture itself like journey to the west and the countless adaptions of it in endless amounts of series, movies, games, anime/manga etc including this one, or another well known Japanese manga based on Sun Wukong.. Dragonball. Son Goku is literally Sun Wukong in Japanese language.
@ANonymous-pg9xg Жыл бұрын
My childhood fave other than Blake's 7 in the UK. This was well done, lovely. Much respect to the Chinese culture and the awesome Japanese team involved. Love all of it, thanks for entertaining us all.
In the original studio recording, that scream was improvised by Steve Fox who played the bass. However, during the live performance, it was the drummer Tommy Snyder who took charge of becoming the "wild boy" of the band who boasted the biggest pair of lungs.
@herohero-qb9vu3 жыл бұрын
オオーリヤー!が無いので残念↘
@bmic41603 жыл бұрын
I'm Japanese. Masako Natsume was so beautiful and charming and ability actress. All Japanese people liked her. But she's gone to Gandhara when she's 27 years old. All of us cried, 「Hey,God. Too young....。」
@tvboxandroid9753 жыл бұрын
Can you translate the comment above please 😎
@kimchi_b3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for a lovely comment, she was so beautiful and charming, she made me fall in love with Japan
@RobBob5553 жыл бұрын
really ? sad . just googled it .. Leukemia :(
@nicholascarey970510 ай бұрын
the genius of japan... thank you. peace.
@captplatonic3 ай бұрын
Actually Journey To The West was written by Wu Cheng'en in China in the 17th century
@oedipamaas20673 ай бұрын
@@captplatonicyeah but china didn't adapt it into a japanese tv show in the late 70s - japan did its no different to crediting japan for spiders web castle even tho its shakespeare adaptation ya dinkus a japaneseman made it
@captplatonic3 ай бұрын
@@oedipamaas2067 well they did, my dad says the Chinese one of the same time period was much better, it just wasn't translated and exported to the west because of politics. The Chinese ones are also more faithful to the original story e.g. In the Japanese Monkey his companions are the monk, a pig and a fish/water monster, but the water monster should be a bull monster. The OG Dragonball was also inspired by Journey to the West and from that you get Oolong (Pig) and the Ox-King Can we agree to say both bits of information are relevant - who made the adaptation in discussion, but also who wrote the original story it was based on?
@mysteryone4356 Жыл бұрын
Legendary series. From the UK this was and is AWESOME!!!!!
It was very popular well into the 1980s here in Australia. Seemed to be on constant repeat!
@mackspowah32814 жыл бұрын
ABC around dinner time
@dbransom4 жыл бұрын
Rush home after school. Battle of the Planets. Kate Bush on Take 5 sing Babushka and then Monkey... I seem to recall doing that for years
@TheRose07246 жыл бұрын
日本の誇り✩⃛ 岸部シローさんの飄々とした沙悟浄が大好きでした。
@PhilBurns-oc2vg3 ай бұрын
Everyone who remembers monkey always mentions whistling up the cloud
@silverkey9338 ай бұрын
At the end of a long long journey in search of words of wisdom, the Buddha gave Sanzang a sutra without any written words. I love this profound episode.
@ひよこ番長-w2o6 жыл бұрын
筋斗雲呼べるかと真似した事あるのは私だけじゃないはず
@ワルキューレ-q3t Жыл бұрын
やっぱり夏目雅子さん素晴らしく綺麗です (´;ω;`)
@木倉谷哲也4 жыл бұрын
やっぱりThe Birth Of The Odysseyとのメドレーバージョンがいいですよね。キーボードが音階上げていくのが胸を高鳴らせますわ。
@robertbreschard34932 жыл бұрын
Remixed
@darrenl3 жыл бұрын
I love this show! I don't know about other countries but it was huge in Australia in the 80s. Just about every kid in our school watched it and we would act out the characters in the school yard. I don't think there was a single kid that didn't try to summon a pink cloud of their own. Good memories! The show is still great to this very day.
@Younghead2 жыл бұрын
@Darren L Yeah I remember giving a few kids Karate chops in the playground at my school, I would do that every time, the next day after watching Monkey Magic, we all acted out the scene’s.
@TwilightParasites2 жыл бұрын
It was massive in the UK too. The English version was created in the UK.
@benshepherd29442 жыл бұрын
Yeah… but Australia rocks.
@Slaphappy12 жыл бұрын
Ireland too, and it hit big time
@davidkitaura70812 жыл бұрын
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@SaorAlba19707 жыл бұрын
i watched this show as a kid in Scotland ... this video brings back happy memories