Monkey (1978)
Monkey (1978)
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
Buddhist priest Tripitaka and his three disciples Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy, travel from China to India to fetch the Buddhist scriptures. They have been sent by Buddha, and getting these scriptures will bring peace to the people of the world.
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Cast & Crew.
Masaaki Sakai
Monkey
Masako Natsume
Tripitaka
Shiro Kishibe
Sandy
Toshiyuki Nishida
Pigsy
Takayuki Akutagawa
Narrator
Shunji Fujimura
Horse
David Collings
Voice of Monkey
Gareth Armstrong
Voice of Sandy
Peter Woodthorpe
Voice of Pigsy
Miriam Margolyes
Narator
Andrew Sachs
Voice of Horse / Yu-Lung
Wu Cheng'en
Novel
Satoshi Aoki
Director
Jun Fukuda
Director
Kazuo Ikehiro
Director
Peter Marinker
Actor
Daisuke Yamazaki
Director
Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Director
Cecile Chevreau
Buddha
Akikazu Ota
Director
Yūsuke Watanabe
Director
Yasutaka Tanaka
Director
Akira Inoue
Director
Masahiro Takase
Director
James Miki
Writer
Motomu Furuta
Writer
Hirokazu Fuse
Writer
Yu Tagami
Writer
Takayuki Kase
Writer
Eizaburo Shiba
Writer
Motoo Nagai
Writer
Mamoru Sasaki
Writer
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 1, 1978
Original Name西遊記
StatusEnded
Seasons2
Episodes52
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
Scripted
martial arts
kung fu
based on novel or book
buddhism
legend
mythology
mongolia
monkey
journey to the west
saiyuki
chinese mythology
Wiki.
Saiyūki (西遊記, lit. 'Account of the Journey to the West'), (titled Monkey in English, but often referred to as Monkey Magic due to the lyrics of its title music), is a Japanese television drama based on the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en. Filmed in Northwest China and Inner Mongolia, the show was produced by Nippon TV and International Television Films and broadcast from 1978 to 1980 on Nippon TV.
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