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The main theme song 2: 敢问路在何方 (Dare to Ask Where Is the Road) Lyrics by Yan Su; performed by Jiang Dawei: The ending theme song 3: 伴君常开花一朵 (By Your Side, A Flower Often Blossoms) Music and lyrics by Yao Ming; performed by Pan Jun: Insert song 4: 心中有路是坦途 (The Road in Your Heart is a Level Path)
Monkey: Journey to the West, a stage musical version created by Chen Shi-Zheng, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. It premiered as part of the Manchester International Festival at the Palace Theatre on 28 June 2007. Mary Zimmerman, Introduction by Anthony C. Yu, Journey to the West: A Play (Northwestern University Press, 2011).
On May 16, 2020, The Lego Group released the theme, Lego Monkie Kid, to which Journey of the West was credited as the main inspiration, featuring many characters from the original work. Four days later on May 20, an animated television series pilot was released to coincide with the theme, and was later picked up for production and released ...
Journey to the West is the soundtrack to the stage musical Monkey: Journey to the West and is composed by English musician Damon Albarn (of Blur and Gorillaz fame) with the UK Chinese Ensemble. The soundtrack is based upon the musical, but is not a direct recording of it.
Journey to the West is a Hong Kong television series adapted from the 16th-century novel of the same title. Starring Dicky Cheung , Kwong Wah , Wayne Lai and Evergreen Mak , the series was produced by TVB and was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in November 1996.
Monkey (孫悟空, Son Gokū), the title character, is described in the theme song as being "born from an egg on a mountain top", a stone egg, and thus he is a stone monkey, a skilled fighter who becomes a brash king of a monkey tribe, who, the song goes on to claim, was "the punkiest monkey that ever popped". [4]
The lyrics of the opening theme song, performed by Yang Xiaolin, are taken from the mantra of the Buddhist scripture Heart Sutra. The ending theme song, sung by Dao Lang, is a remixed version of the 1986 television series Journey to the West's theme song, which was originally performed by Jiang Dawei. [citation needed]
Tang Sanzang is modeled after the historical Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang, whose life was the book's inspiration; the real Xuanzang made a perilous journey on foot from China to India (and back) to obtain Buddhist sutras.