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Remember the guy from cult 70s TV show Monkey? This is what actor Masaaki Sakai ...

The Sun 30 Jun 2022

Masaaki Sakai is known for his role in MonkeyRex Features. Main character Monkey, who according to the theme song was “born from an egg on a mountain top”, was played by Japanese performer and comedian Masaaki Sakai ... Masaaki Sakai was a big deal in Japan before he starred in Monkey.

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Vintage cars leave Nagoya on annual 4-day La Festa Primavera rally

Kyodo 19 Apr 2019

Approximately 70 vintage cars, including some from rare European marques with long racing histories, left central Japan Friday on an annual four-day historic rally ... Car enthusiast and famous TV personality Masaaki Sakai entered the event in a sleek blue 1967 Maserati Mistral coupe ... I look forward to seeing the ocean view across the Kii Peninsula ." ... .

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Colombia vs Japan: Live blog, text commentary, line-ups, stream & TV channel

Sporting News 19 Jun 2018

Japan substitutes.�Keisuke Honda,�Naomichi Ueda,�Hotaru Yamaguchi,�Kosuke Nakamura,�Yoshinori Muto,�Wataru Endo,�Shinji Okazaki,�Gotoku Sakai,�Ryota Oshima,�Takashi Usami,�Tomoaki Makino,�Masaaki Higashiguchi ... Kawashima, Shoji, Nagatomo, Sakai, Yoshida, Shibasaki,� Hasebe,�Haraguchi, Kagawa, Inui, Osako.

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World Cup 2018 squad lists: Latest news on all 736 players heading to Russia

The Independent 09 Jun 2018

Defender Hiroki Sakai is nursing a knee ligament injury but should be fit ... Eiji Kawashima (Metz), Masaaki Higashiguchi (Gamba Osaka), Kosuke Nakamura (Kashiwa Reysol) ... Hiroki Sakai (Marseille), Gotoku Sakai (Hamburg), Gen Shoji (Kashima Antlers), Naomichi Ueda (Kashima Antlers).

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Seven Things That Made 'Monkey' Magic

Time Out 25 Apr 2018

With ‘The New Legends of Monkey’ on Netflix soon, we’ve turned the clock back to teatime sometime in the early ’80s to celebrate a legendary kids’ TV show. If you saw it, you loved it ... In a world of TV goodie-goodies, its hero, Monkey (Masaaki Sakai), is entertainingly arrogant and selfish ... We loved him anyway ... Nah. .

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Obituary / Monsieur Kamayatsu / Musician

The Japan News 02 Mar 2017

He was 78 ... In 1964, Kamayatsu joined The Spiders as a vocalist and guitarist, leading the Group Sounds boom together with fellow band members Masaaki Sakai and Jun Inoue.Speech. Click to play ... + - ... .

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Halilhodzic names 25-man Japan squad for World Cup qualifier

Boston Herald 01 Jun 2015

Eiji Kawashima (Standard Liege), Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Reds), Shuichi Gonda (FC Tokyo), Masaaki Higashiguchi (Gamba Osaka) ... Hiroki Sakai (Hannover), Gotoku Sakai (Stuttgart), Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan), Kosuke Ota (FC Tokyo), Maya Yoshida (Southampton), Daiki Niwa (Gamba Osaka), Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Reds), Masato Morishige (FC Tokyo).

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Halilhodzic names his 1st Japan squad

The Japan News 19 Mar 2015

Halilhodzic reeled off the names of 31 players he has chosen for the warm-ups ... Slide 1 of 1. Jiji Press ... Goalkeepers. Eiji Kawashima, Masaaki Higashiguchi, Shusaku Nishikawa, Shuichi Gonda ... Gotoku Sakai, Hiroki Sakai, Atsuto Uchida, Maya Yoshida, Hiroki Mizumoto, Gen Shoji, Masato Morishige, Tomoaki Makino, Kosuke Ota, Hiroki Fujiharu, Yuto Nagatomo ... .

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Public to Tepco: Don't hike rates

Japan Times 08 Jun 2012

Masaaki Sakai, one of 10 members of the public given the opportunity to speak, expressed dismay at media reports that Tepco is planning to increase the annual salaries of employees by an average of ¥460,000 in the next fiscal year.

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Cult 70s series Monkey remade as £13m show... but will it be as good as ...

The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2010

A big budget version of the 1970s cult classic Monkey is being filmed in China ... The sometimes-cheesy 1970s series, starring Masaaki Sakai, was bought by the BBC, who teamed the images with a script written by David Weir ... The original Japanese show starring Masaaki Sakai was shown on the BBC, who dubbed it with a script written by David Weir ... Name.

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Channel surf

Japan Times 13 Apr 2008

The key word is "mottai nai," or "what a waste." ... The protagonist is 60-year-old record-company executive and former "band man" Tachiki (Masaaki Sakai, the former lead singer of Group Sounds standard bearer The Spiders) ... He also encounters Tatsuhiko (Yoshimi Tokui) on a train ... .

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This week, okonomiyaki, hold the 'bam!'

The Los Angeles Times 18 Apr 2007

They're the innovators." ... And here's the real kicker ... Bells a-ringing ... "Mr ... Another is "Chubou Desu Yo!" ("Here's the Kitchen!"), a cooking demo show with accomplished guest chefs and hosted by Masaaki Sakai, a Japanese celebrity who fronted the Spiders, a '60s band (part of the "group sounds" Japanese music genre) ... Hopefully, Sakai's humor translates ... .

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China rediscovers magical world of 'The Monkey King'

The Independent 23 Mar 2007

"I suppose you want to fight me?" the Monkey King would say before spinning his magic staff, whipping up a magical pink cloud with his fingers and getting busy with the kung fu ... Or even at the opera ... Masaaki Sakai, a former pop singer, played Monkey in the 1970s TV series ... .

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TV shows spur 'health' food fads

Japan Times 19 Feb 2007

YOSHIAKI MIURA PHOTO. A responsible doctor would never make such a claim. But when popular TV show host Masaaki Sakai said just that in early January, citing academic findings and comments from "experts," while guest commentators "oohed" and "aahed" at data that reported remarkable weight losses, tens of thousands of viewers believed it ... On Feb ... .

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Monkey magic casts spell in Asia

BBC News 15 Feb 2006

An ambitious remake of Japan's most successful television drama Saiyuki (Monkey) is causing a stir across Asia. The new version of the 1978 drama broke ratings records last month with one in three Japanese viewers tuning in ... The Japanese heart-throb will be the first actor to play Monkey after Masaaki Sakai more than 25 years ago. Modern Monkey ... .