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The Monkey Goes West
THE MONKEY GOES WEST is the first entry in the studio’s epic, four-part screen adaptation of “Journey to the West,” a 16th-century novel recounting the efforts of a Buddhist monk and his magical companions to travel to India and bring back Buddhist sutras.
| Release : | 1966 |
| Rating : | 6.6 |
| Studio : | Shaw Brothers, |
| Crew : | Art Direction, Makeup Artist, |
| Cast : | Elliot Ngok Ho Fan Tien Shun Pang Pang Fan Mei-Sheng |
| Genre : | Adventure Fantasy Action Music |
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Simply A Masterpiece
Pretty Good
It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
This film version tells an early segment of the lengthy Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. The newly released (in Hong Kong, anyway) DVD version has been digitally restored, and so the visual and audio presentation is at least as good as it was at its 1966 release, with full, rich color and sound (I kept thinking of the restored version of The Wizard of Oz, with the almost-too-bright colors).The film clearly was made for Chinese audiences who would have been familiar with the story. Consequently, much of the history of Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy is brief to nonexistant, which is a shame, as it's central to understanding how they came to be together. Nonetheless, it's thoroughly enjoyable; even the musical numbers.Celestial Pictures has also released another story from Journey to the West, Princess Iron Fan, with many of the same characters.
