- Older Than They Think: Shizuka playing the equivalent of Tang San-zhang seems like an odd choice, until you realize there's an earlier Japanese adaptation of Journey, Monkey from 1978 (pre-dating this film by a decade) which has Matsuko Natsume portraying a Gender Flipped San-zhang.
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