Friday the 13th: The Series Season 3 Year of the Monkey 1990
The trio track a cursed tea set to a samurai, Musashi: an honorable man, but one who refuses to give them the antique unless they aid him in recovering a mystical set of oriental monkey statues (which represent See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil). A wealth Japanese industrialist, Tanaka, has them, and they reward his honorable behavior with success in business. Now he is almost ready to die, and the magic of the statues require that he use them to test the honor of his three children to see which one will inherit. Each monkey gives a child magical powers, but the two sons abuse their power and fail to act honorably. Forced to choose seppuku (ritual suicide) they refuse, and the monkey statues then kill them. each death further reinvigorates Tanaka. The daughter passes her test, but is then required to use the statues to kill her father. She refuses, and kills herself. Musashi then confronts his old friend Tanaka and tricks him into killing the unarmed samurai. Having acted dishon
- Released: 1990-01-27
- Runtime: 45 minutes
- Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama
- Stars: Louise Robey, Chris Wiggins, John D. LeMay
- Director: Jacques Fortier, Frank Mancuso Jr.
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1. The Prophecies (1) 1989-10-07
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2. The Prophecies (2) 1989-10-07
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3. Demon Hunter 1989-10-14
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4. Crippled Inside 1989-10-21
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5. Stick It In Your Ear 1989-10-28
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6. Bad Penny 1989-11-11
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7. Hate On Your Dial 1989-11-18
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8. Night Prey 1989-11-25
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9. Femme Fatale 1989-12-02
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10. Mightier Than the Sword 1990-01-20
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11. Year of the Monkey 1990-01-27
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12. Epitaph For a Lonely Soul 1990-02-03
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13. Midnight Riders 1990-02-10
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14. Repetition 1990-02-17
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15. The Long Road Home 1990-02-24
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16. My Wife as a Dog 1990-03-03
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17. Jack-in-the-Box 1990-05-05
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18. Spirit of Television 1990-05-12
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19. The Tree of Life 1990-05-19
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20. The Charnel Pit 1990-05-26
