Journey to the West (1986) s01e09 Episode Script

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Episode 9 Stealing the Ginsengfruit
As I must go to the Miluo Palace
in the Heaven of Supreme Purity
for a lecture of Original Immortal
on Product of Undifferentiated Unity
I have to take these
manfruit with me
Yes
You two will have to
stay in the temple
to look after the
manfruit tree carefully
Do not make any trouble
Yes, master
Pure Wind and Bright Moon
Yes, master
Today a priest sent by
the Tang Emperor in the East
known as Tang Sanzang will be coming
this way on his journey to the West
He's an old friend of mine
You can pick two
manfruit for him
as a token of our old friendship
Yes, master
But master, ours is the
esoteric sect of the Great Monad
why ever do you friend with
that Buddhist monk
You don't know
he's a reincarnation
of the Golden Cicada
the second disciple of the Tathagata
500 years ago I made his acquaintance
at an Ullambana assembly
Therefore, I regard
him as an old friend
Yes
You must be on your guard
against his ruffian disciples
in order to avoid any trouble
Yes, master
Move, move
Master
Bajie, move
Look
Master, this way please
Please
Go
Brother, read the couplets
Residence of Divine Immortal
Who Never Grow Old
Home of Taoist
as Longevous as Heaven
They're talking big
When I messed the
Heavenly Palace 500 years ago
I never saw anything like that
over the gate of
Most Exalted Lord Lao
Brother
Never mind them
Let's go in and get a meal
Ok, let's go. Move
Please
Please
Come on, come on
Second brother
Brother, why is he so strange
This Wuzhuang Temple
is a heavenly place
But immortal boys
why not worship Three Pure Ones
Four Emperors, all ministers of Heaven
but the Heaven and Earth
To be frank, venerable teacher
the Three Pure Ones and Four Emperors
are our teacher's friends
And the Nine Bright Shiners
are his juniors
So it's not appropriate
to worship them in our temple
Brother, what are you laughing at
They all say that
I get up to no good
but these Taoist boys
really tell whoppers
Wukong
May I ask where your master is
Our teacher, Zhen Yuanzi had an
invitation from the Original Immortal
and has gone to the Miluo Palace
in the Heaven of Supreme Purity
to hear a lecture on the
Product of Undifferentiated Unity
Shut up! Do not lie to my master
Don't quarrel with him, Wukong
Their master isn't here anyway
so it's not appropriate
for us to disturb them
Go and graze the
horse outside the gate. Yes
Bajie, take some rice
from our bundles
use their kitchen
to make our meals
Yes
Wujing
Master
You look after the luggage. Ok
When we leave we shall give
them some money for the firewood
Yes, master
Brother, let's leave so that
the priest can have a rest
Reverend teacher
please have a good rest
Thank you
Brother, what the teacher said
about those disciples is true
They have murderous-looking
faces and coarse natures
Thank goodness he sent them away
because if they were still with him
we wouldn't give him the manfruit
But, brother
we haven't found out whether
he's our master's old friend or not
You're right
I'd better go and ask him
to make sure. Yes
Clean the wok, and make a meal
Crispy rice
Brother, I've made sure that
he is Tang Sanzang whom
the master mentioned
Really? Then we'd better
fetch the manfruit now
Oh no, we can't. Manfruit
Why not
If his disciples find out
what are we going to do
Oh, I remember the master told us
to offer the manfruit
only to Tang Sanzang. Right
Well
Brother, hurry up
While his disciples
are not around
we should fetch the manfruit
for him as soon as possible
Well, wait. Let me get
the Golden Rod
Ok
Let's go
Master
Master Sanzang, the temple of ours is
on a remote and desolate mountain
there is no local delicacy we can offer
you except these two pieces of fruit
We hope they will
quench your thirst
Master, please
God
In this year of plenty
how could you be so reduced
to starvation as to eat human flesh
Good gracious! Good gracious
Venerable master, this is called
manfruit or Grass-returning Cinnabar
Please eat one
Venerable master, please
No, no
I can see they're newborn babies
How could I possibly
quench my thirst with them
They truly grew on a tree
Nonsense! Nonsense
Babies don't grow on a tree
You can look closer
Take them away. Take them away
Amitabha
Let's go. Ok
He has wasted such
wonderful things
Did you hear what he said
He said these are newborn babies
Hum. Let's go
What a pavid monk
Look
Please! Ah! Take them away
Take them away
Take them away! Amitabha
So he's not lucky enough. He has
developed eyes of flesh, a mortal body
and can't recognise the treasures
of this home of Immortal
But, this fruit couldn't
be kept for long
otherwise, it'd become
hard and inedible
Yes
What a pity
What about? What about? Say it
What about eating them now
Right
Brother, come here. Come
Come here. Come
What's up
What's up, idiot
Sit here. Sit
Sit down
Brother, do you know
in this temple
there's a treasure
What treasure
Even if I tell you
you've never seen it
If I give it to you
you wouldn't know what it is
Idiot! When I messed
the Heavenly Palace
I travelled on my cloud to the corners
of the ocean and the edge of the sky
I've seen everything
Tell me what it is
Manfruit. Have you seen it
What
Manfruit
No, I haven't
Where can we get some
Here, in this temple
Bajie, I've heard that manfruit is
also called Grass-returning Cinnabar
Anyone who eats it can be longevous
Wonderful
Just now those boys fetched two
and offered them to our master
But he doesn't know what
they are and wouldn't eat them
In that case they should
have sent them to us
You're right
You know what they have done
They had one each
No wonder they're sneaking just now
Brother, as you're so smart
could you get two
of the fruit for us to taste
Brother, my dear brother
just get some
Brother, please, please
All right, wait here
Brother, I heard them
saying in their room
that they needed a Golden Rod
A Golden Rod
Come here
Just behind that window
Bajie
Is that thing on the table
the Golden Rod
Yes, it is
Wait here. Yes
That's odd. Where is it
It must be able to walk
But even then, it won't
be able to pass the wall
Great Sage, what are your orders
Land God, you old chap
surely you know
that I am the most
famous criminal on earth
I stole peaches, the imperial wine
pills of immortality some years ago
nobody dared to try and take a cut
What comes it that
when I take some fruit today
you pinch my very first one
Great Sage, how dare I
I even don't dare
smell it
Why did it disappear
the moment I knocked it down
Great Sage, you may
not know its origin
These tree take
3,000 years to blossom
another 3,000 years to form
and 3,000 more to ripen
And it grows only 30 in
almost 10,000 years. Only 30
Anyone lucky enough to
smell one will live for 360 years
Great Sage
If you eat one
you will live to be 47,000 years
But these fruit fear
only the Five Elements
Fear only the Five Elements
If they meet metal they fall
if they meet wood they rot
If they meet water they dissolve
if they meet fire they are burnt
And if they meet earth
What will happen
They go into it
They must have gone into the earth
Let me dig them out
Great Sage
How hard it is
Land God, this cudgel of mine
can smash rocks to powder and even
leave its mark on wrought iron
but this time it did
no damage at all
Great Sage, you may not know that
it's much harder than wrought iron
So I was wrong to blame you
You may go back now
Thank you, Great Sage
Great Sage
Brother, brother
Come on in. Come on in
Have you got it
Come here. Come
Sit down
Did you get it, brother
It's just an easy job
This is the stuff, isn't it
Brother, don't fool me
Let me share them
You know manfruit is very precious
So we mustn't leave Friar Sand
in the dark. Go to get him
Why
Just do it
No, no. Be quick
Friar Sand
Second brother, me
Come over here. Quickly
Brother, why did you call me
Brother, do you know what these are
Oh? Manfruit? Where did you get it
Wow, you know what they are
Then he must have eaten
somewhere. Don't give it to him
When I was the Curtain-lifting
General in the old days
in the Peach Banquet
I saw some Immortals
from overseas brought that
as birthday present
for the Queen Mother
But I, I've never tasted one
Well
then we're having one each
What about our master
These manfruit are stolen
and I wouldn't like to be
punished by our master
Brother
just now the Taoist boys
offered some to our master
but he refused them
I'm going to eat my share
Brother, brother
Brother, what are you eating
Manfruit
Ignore him, Wujing
You've already eaten yours
and you've no business to ask us
Brother, I ate mine too fast
I didn't taste the
flavour like you two
I don't even know
if it had a stone or not
Whose fault is it
Dear brother, you should
finish what you've started
Get me another
to eat slowly like you
So that I could
taste the flavour, too
How greedy you are
Only thirty grow in
every 10,000 years
so we can think ourselves very lucky
indeed to have a whole one each
And you want to
stuff yourself full of them
What happened
Look
Get me some more, brother
My dear brother
Get me some more
Idiot! Keep quiet
They may have stolen
the treasure in our garden
You're right. Let's check it
Let's go to the garden
to take a look around
Right
Quick
15, 16, 17, 18
19, 20, 21, 22
Oh no, only 22
Missed 4
They must have stolen them
Thieves
Let's go and ask them
Right
Master
Monk Tang
What's wrong, immortal boys
He, him
What? You look like
a venerable elder
but act like a thief
Immortal boys, what are
you making all this fuss about
You can't talk in this
outrageous way
You've stolen our manfruit
you've no right to blame us now
You! You! You
Just now when we offered to you
you pretended to be
scared and refused us
Who knows you stole it behind us
Amitabha
I shook with terrors
at the very sight of them
I couldn't possibly steal one
Well
Please don't make so unjust
an accusation, immortal boys
Unjust
Even if you may not have stolen it
those disciples of yours
must stole and ate some
Well
You're quite right
Calm down, please
Wait. Wait till I question them
If they stole some, I'll see
that they make it up to you
Make it up? They are
things that money can't buy
Disciples
Master
Master is calling us
Let's cover it up
We couldn't tell him the truth
Don't say it
Yes, never confess it. Disciples
Go. Come here
Master, the meal is cooked
I'm not asking about the meal
This temple has somewhat
called manfruit
Which of you stole and ate some
Honestly, I don't know anything
about it. I never saw any
That grinning one did it
Grinning
What? I've had a smile
on my face all my life
Are you going to stop me smiling
just because you lost some fruit
Brother
Brother, look at him
Wukong
Master
As a monk we should never tell lies
If you did eat their fruit
you should apologise to them
Brother. Ur
What our master said is right
We should tell him the truth
How can you say that
How can you say that? Second brother
Master, let me tell you the truth
It's Bajie who starts it
Bajie heard the Taoist boys eating
something called manfruit next door
and wanted to try one himself
So he made me go and get three
so that we three disciples
could have one each
You stole four of them
and lied to us that
you only stole three
How can you deny
that you're criminals
What? Four
If you stole 4 of them
why did you only share out 3
You've hidden one from us
You've hidden one from us! Give it out
Second brother
Stop it. I only pinched 3
You're lying! There's
supposed to be 26 in the garden
But just now I counted carefully
and found only 22 remained
So it's clear that
you stole 4 from us
Right
Wukong, how many
did you steal on earth
Only 3! I swear
No, it's 4! Definitely 4
You're lying
Nonsense
Brother Monkey
tell them the truth
Stop denying. You idiot
Second brother
Shut up
Wukong, how many did you steal
Master, only 3
No, it's 4
3! 4
3! 4! 4
It's 4
You evil monk, you stole
our treasure and lied to our face
Well, you monks are all so greedy
that even steal our fruit
Wukong, do not be rude
I'll finish their tree off
Well, you insulted me
You insulted me
Brother, these monks
will take anything we say
We've shouted at them
for a long while
but they hardly had any response
How dare they! They are criminals
It's impossible that
they dare say anything
Would it be possible we miscounted as
the tree is tall and with dense foliage
In that case, we are
wrong to blame them
We've counted for so many times
It's absolutely twenty-two!
Let's go and check the number again
Let's go. All right
The elixir of our temple destroyed and
our community of Immortals is finished
What can we do
When the master comes back
whatever are we going to say to him
Damned
That hairy-faced Thunder God monk
must have used his magic
to destroy our treasure
What're we going to do now
We must capture them
and let the master decide
We two couldn't have a chance
against four of them
I've got an idea
Have your meal, master
Master, please
No, no. Master should take it first
Master
I'll take it all if you don't
Venerable master
Venerable masters just now we went back
to the garden to check the number
The fruit is all there
We've made a mistake
We were extremely rude to
you just now. Please forgive us
I'm really sorry
Sorry, sorry. It's all right
I've told you that we've never
stolen or eaten any manfruit
Here are a few side dishes
to eat with rice for you. Good
Help yourself, please
Thank you, immortal boys
Please, please
Do they really have some magic
to make the tree alive again
Go. Go
Brother Bajie, look
What strange custom they have here
That's not right to shut
the doors when while we eat
You greedy thieves
You ate our immortal fruit
and you even pushed over our tree
What
What are they talking about? No idea
Don't even think about
leaving this place now
You ape! You stole their fruit
so you should have
let them swear at you
Why on earth did you
push their tree over
Master
Now the gates have been locked
How can we possibly get away
Yes
Master, Monkey can turn himself
into a bird and fly out
But we'll be left here
to carry the can for him
Don't let it bother you, master
Don't worry, brothers
After the boys are asleep
I have a way to get you out
All right
Master
Bajie, come. Lead the horse
Friar Sand
Wait
Bajie, come on
Wait
Master, you three carry on
And I go back to make sure that
those boys will stay asleep for a month
Mind you don't kill them, Wukong
Don't worry. I promise
Friar Sand, Bajie
take good care of our master
Venerable elders
Brother Bajie
Brother Bajie, wake up
Greetings
Greetings
Where are you from
and going to, venerable elder
I have been sent by
the Great Tang in the East
to fetch sutra in the West
From the East
Then you must have crossed
my desolate mountain
May I ask, Immortal Taoist
which mountain is yours
The Wuzhuang Temple on
the Mountain of Infinite Longevity
is my humble abode
We didn't come that way
We came the other way
You damned ape
Who do you think you're fooling
You knocked my manfruit tree down
and came here during the night
You'd better confess
and give me back my tree at once
Master
Master. What
Pure Wind, Bright Moon
Yes, master
Bring me the seven-starred
dragon-skin whip
Yes, master
Master, here it is
Which of them shall I flog first
Sanzang is guilty of
gross disrespect
Flog him first. Wait
I stole the fruit
and I ate the fruit
I even pushed the tree over
He has nothing to do with this
Why do you flog him first
when you ought to flog me
The damn ape has the courage
to take his responsibility
Of course
Well
give him 30 strokes
Too few
Too light, too light
Brother
Beat him hard
Tang Sanzang has trained
his wicked disciple so slackly
and let him run wild
He must be flogged 30 strokes, too
Sir, you're making another mistake
When I stole your fruit
my master was talking to your boys
He knew nothing about it
Anyhow, even if he were
guilty of slackness in training me
I'm his disciple and should
take the flogging for him
So flog me again
The damned monkey
may be cunning and vicious
Not at all
But he does have some sense
of his obligations to his master
Well, flog him again
Master, it's me
Wukong
My disciples. Master, let's go
Bajie
Brother, save me
I know
Go
Quickly! Hurry up
You go first
Be quick
Brothers
Move, move
Quickly, Wujing
Move
Master
Those monks have
turned into willow trunks
Master
Go quickly
He's coming again
Bring the cauldron
and boil the oil
Quickly. Quickly
Ah
Bajie, look, the oil is boiling
Maybe they're cooking some rice for us
Fine. I hope they give us
some rice before killing us
It would be much better
if we die with our bellies full
Throw Monkey in it and deep-fry him
to pay me back for my manfruit tree
Oh? Brother, he's
not cooking rice for us
but cooking you
Come on. Come on
Brother. Brother
Wukong
Master! It's broken
Damned ape! I don't mind so much
about your getting away
but how dare you wreck my cauldron
Forget about it. Let him go
Listen. Master
Fetch another pot
and deep-fry Tang Sanzang
Hey, wait, wait
Master
You can't get much out of
my master if you fry him
What about that fat one
with big ears
Monkey Sun
Don't always fool me
You damned ape
Why did you use one of your
tricks to smash my cooking pot
You must expect to be
smashed up if you meet me
And what business
is it of mine anyhow
Just now I was desperate for a piss
and if I'd done them in your cauldron
I'd have spoilt your oil and your food
Now I've done my stuff
Please fry me instead of my master
Monkey Sun. Yes
I've heard about your powers
and your fame
Even if you manage
to remove yourself today
you won't be able
to escape my clutches
Even if you see the Tathagata
you'll still have to give me
back my manfruit tree first
Sir, I didn't know that you just
want your tree brought back to life
What a small-minded bloke you are
There's no problem if you
want your tree to be alive again
You're boasting
What would you do if
I give you back the tree alive
If you can revive my tree
I'll bow to you eight times
and take you as my brother
That's very fine
Where are you going
Looking for a cure
What if you don't come back. Well
I should give you a time limit
How many days
3 days
That's the deal
But you have to take
good care of my master
Give him tea 3 times a day and 6 meals
and don't leave any out
If he loses any weight
I would never forgive you
Don't worry
I'm off
Please, please
Please. Please
Greetings, respected brothers
Why have you come here, Great Sage
I came here specially to see you
I heard that you're protecting Monk Tang
on his journey to fetch sutra
How can you spare the
time to come to the East Sea
Frankly, we went via the Wuzhuang Temple
on the Mountain of Infinite Longevity
and were held up there
because of some small troubles
You Monkey
don't say that you've stolen
manfruit of the
Great Immortal Zhen Yuan
It's not a big deal if I
had stolen and eaten some
What? Not a big deal
That tree is a miraculous tree
Anyone who eats one will
live a long life and never grow old
Great Sage
Miraculous tree! Miraculous tree
I've put an end to that miraculous tree
What? Put an end to it
He put an end to it
Great Sage, don't say that
you pushed his tree over
That's true
You don't know
who you're up against
Great Sage, that Master Zhen Yuan is the
Patriarch of the Immortal of the earth
He's most powerful
You've destroyed his tree
and you'll never be able
to escape his clutches
So I came to Penglai Island
to ask for a cure from
you three brothers of mine
A cure? No, there's no cure
No, none at all
Great Sage, why are you so worried
Even though we have no cure here
there may be one somewhere else
But that Immortal has given me
a time limit only of 3 days
If I don't go back in time
he would despise me as lacking credit
What? Ur
Calm down, Great Sage
There's no need to worry
You could go somewhere
else to look for the cure
while I would go to Wuzhuang Temple
I'll ask the Immortal
to give you a few more days
What do you think? Right, right
Then thank you very much
Master. Master. Master
Master. Master
Wukong, from now on
you are not allowed to
claim yourself as my disciple
and I won't meet you any more
Master, you really don't
want to see me any more
Master
Wukong
Master
Where are you
Have you known what
crime you've committed
I do
I'm begging you to give me
a formula to revive the tree
Well, cure comes
from over the South Sea
Go and find it
Thank you so much, master
Sun Wukong
Where are you going
You bear monster who stole
the cassock of my master
If I hadn't spared your life that
time on the Black Wind Mountain
you would never to follow Bodhisattva
and accept enlightenment
Shouldn't you address me as sir
The ancients said that
a gentleman does not bear grudges
Why did you mention it
Anyhow, the Bodhisattva has
sent me to welcome you here
Really
This way please
Please
Wukong
How far has the Monk Tang got
He has reached the Wuzhuang Temple
on the Mountain of Infinite Longevity
Then why do you have come here
Bodhisattva, I destroyed manfruit tree
of the Great Immortal Zhen Yuan
As a result my master is
in a very difficult position
and we can make no progress
You wretched ape
Even I have to show a certain respect
to the Great Immortal Zhen Yuan
Why ever did you harm his tree
Wukong, look
You carrying load while I leading horse
Greeting the sunrise and sunset
Overcoming all obstacles
And we keep on going after battles
Keep on going after battles
La La La La.
Lasting for several hard years
Experienced so many hardships