Sunny Piggy (2000)

Original title

春光灿烂猪八戒

Cast

Xu Zheng, Zhu Bajie, Xu Chen Rui Zhi, Tao Hong, Xiaolongnü, Fan Chu Rong, Mao Shan, Sun Xing

Genre

drama, comedy

Country

People's Republic of China

Length

1 season, 38 episodes

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 10 voters

How it feels

A foolish pig named Zhu Bajie wants to become human. A dragon princess loves him unconditionally even until her death.

romanticfantasticalcomedicwhimsicaltragicfolkloricsillyfart-humored

What happens

Sunny Piggy is a 2000 Chinese romantic fantasy comedy-drama television series. It stars Xu Zheng as Zhu Bajie, a foolish pig (and farting machine) who wanted to become human, and Tao Hong as a kindhearted dragon princess who loved him unconditionally until her death. Most characters, including Zhu Bajie, are taken from the 16th-century novel Journey to the West and Chinese mythology. The series was filmed in 1999 jointly by Jiangsu Television, Zhejiang Television, Sichuan Television and Dragon Television, in conjunction with Suzhou Southern Pai Culture Media, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles Publishing Corporation, and Sky Creation. Copyrights were sold to 13 national television stations, which began broadcasting it almost simultaneously in January 2000. It achieved ratings over 30% in several provinces, prompting over 20 smaller local stations to show its reruns. Xu Zheng, virtually unknown before the series, rode its popularity to stardom. He and Tao Hong became close friends, and eventually married in 2002. The show has since spawned several sequels and remakes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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