Journey to the West

A stone egg born from a divine rock on Flowers and Fruit Mountain hatches into a stone monkey whose blazing gaze reaches the Heavenly Palace. When the Jade Emperor dismisses the wonder as nothing unusual, the monkey joins the mountain's troop and wins their allegiance by daring to leap through a waterfall, discovering the hidden Water-Curtain Cave and becoming their Handsome Monkey King. Yet after centuries of carefree rule, he is troubled by the fear of death and sets out across the seas to fin

After years of menial chores and quiet study under Patriarch Subhuti, Sun Wukong finally deciphers his master's secret signal and receives the true formula for immortality in a private midnight lesson. He masters the seventy-two transformations and the cloud-somersault, but a moment of pride before his fellow disciples brings a sudden, tearful exile and a stern warning never to reveal his master's name. Returning to the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit after twenty years, he finds his kingdom overr