From: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org (Monkey Digest) To: monkey-digest@valinor.eldar.org Subject: Monkey Digest V1 #1249 Reply-To: monkey@valinor.eldar.org Sender: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Errors-To: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org Precedence: bulk Monkey Digest Wednesday, October 27 2004 Volume 01 : Number 1249 In this issue: RE: [monkey] 13 newly-dubbed Monkey episodes world premiere on Ch4! [monkey] New Masaaki Sakai interview from September 2004! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:43:15 +0000 From: "Howell Parry" Subject: RE: [monkey] 13 newly-dubbed Monkey episodes world premiere on Ch4! Next week... (don't forget tonight's episode!) The next unseen episode will be shown on Tuesday 2nd November 2004 night, after midnight (so strictly speaking the early hours of Wednesday 3rd November 2004), at 02:20am - 03:10am: The Land With Two Suns The pilgrims enter a land where night never falls. For five hundred years, ever since the vulture demon Konsei-Maoh stole Dainichi Buddha's sun-mirror, as soon as one sun sets another one rises. Tripitaka offers the villagers their help and Monkey, who has an old score to settle with the demon, is more than happy to oblige. Things take a turn for the worse after Monkey bumps into a familiar face, and the demon sets his sights on Tripitaka. Howell - -------------------------------------------------------------------- + List guidelines: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/guidelines.html + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? Send an email to: owner-monkey@valinor.eldar.org - -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:24:12 +0000 From: "Howell Parry" Subject: [monkey] New Masaaki Sakai interview from September 2004! An interview with Masaaki Sakai appeared in the 21 September 2004 edition of Asahi newspaper in Japan. Go to my page: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/masaaki.html to see the scanned image of it. Here's an English translation of this article (many thanks to Go Kato for providing me with this): - -- "--[Obsessiveness with comedy] -- Masaaki SAKAI -M.C at "Hakkutsu! aru aru daijiten 2" - There was a bitter time for this person. He ruled the world as a vocalist of The Spiders. He said "I had too much western air, but it used to be a kind of idol stars." After his solo debut, a smash hit with `SARABA KOIBITOYO` gave him new fans. It was a time after such a big achievement. His job went down. He was hardly offered a job. He remembers as follows: "The bitterest experience in showbiz was not to be able to attract attentions in spite of being known by everyone." He looked back on his life and said that it was the chance of revival to be able to declare shamelessly that I was so bad now. And there were people who gave him a oppotunity to break again. Such a bitter experience might make him such a considerate man. He always tries to make us at home with his humour. His job today was the programme about blood type fortune-telling topic. So he said laughing,"My blood type is A. I make everyone comfortable with reading atmosphere if I would hurt or not. It's my intuitive character." He'll be a M.C. in new program at Nihon TV from next October. And his album which consists of his singles singing as a solo singer was released last August. He has many aspects as an M.C., singer, actor, and Kakushigei king in New Year. But he says,"The centre of me is always just a man, Masaaki SAKAI." And he criticises himself simultaneously, "I am an unbearable man and can't devote myself to just one thing." Such his talk attracts even someone new. Fifty eight years old. Now his age has exceeded his father's age at death, who was a comedy actor Shunji Sakai. And he's also been adhering comedy. "I am at the age when people are likey to do with courage or with an unassuming stance. But it is almost impossible for me to act my age. There is still about-40years-old-man inside me." He seems to try making new style by aging again. ref: 21st Sep, 2004, Asahi newspaper " - -- Howell - -------------------------------------------------------------------- + List guidelines: http://www.monkeyheaven.com/guidelines.html + To unsubscribe, send an email to: majordomo@valinor.eldar.org with 'unsubscribe monkey' in the body of your message + Need help? 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