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Saiyūki , also known by its English title Monkey, 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.
Original Release
10/01/1978
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Masaaki Sakai | Monkey / Sun Wu-Kong (Monkey) / Son Gokû |
| Shiro Kishibe | Sandy / Sha Wu-Jing (Sandy) / Sa Gojô |
| Masako Natsume | Tripitaka / Xuanzang Sanzang (Tripitaka) / Sanzô Hôshi |
| Miriam Margolyes | (voice) |
| Andrew Sachs | Horse / Horse (voice) / Yu-Lung (season 2) |
| Peter Woodthorpe | Pigsy / Pigsy (voice) |
| David Collings | Monkey / Monkey (voice) |
| Peter Marinker | (voice) |
| Gareth Armstrong | Sandy / Sandy (voice) |
| Cecile Chevreau | Buddha / Buddha (voice) |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saishuppatsu Tenjiku e no michi | Sunday, 11 November 1979 |
| 2 | The Dog's of Death | Sunday, 18 November 1979 |
| 3 | You Win Some, You Lose Some | Sunday, 25 November 1979 |
| 4 | Pigsy Learns a Lesson | Sunday, 02 December 1979 |
| 5 | The Land with Two Suns | Sunday, 09 December 1979 |
| 14 | Kijo Yôkai: Nerawareta shinkon fûfu | Sunday, 10 February 1980 |
| 16 | Ikareta teishu no deshiiri shigan | Sunday, 24 February 1980 |
| 20 | Moeta byôbu no Shichifukujin | Sunday, 23 March 1980 |
| 21 | Isetsu Kishibojin yurai ki | Sunday, 30 March 1980 |
| 25 | Monkey's Yearning | Sunday, 27 April 1980 |
| 28 | The Dogs of Death | |
| 32 | The House of the Evil Spirit | Sunday, 16 December 1979 |
| 33 | Am I Dreaming? | Sunday, 23 December 1979 |
| 34 | The Tormented Emperor | Sunday, 30 December 1979 |
| 35 | Between Heaven and Hell | Sunday, 06 January 1980 |
| 36 | The Foolish Philosopher | Sunday, 13 January 1980 |
| 37 | Who Am I? | Sunday, 20 January 1980 |
| 38 | What Is Wisdom? | Sunday, 27 January 1980 |
| 39 | The Fountain of Youth | Sunday, 03 February 1980 |
| 41 | A Shadow So Huge | Sunday, 17 February 1980 |
| 43 | Give and Take | Sunday, 02 March 1980 |
| 44 | Such a Nice Monster | Sunday, 09 March 1980 |
| 45 | The Fake Pilgrims | Sunday, 16 March 1980 |
| 48 | The Tenacious Tomboy | Sunday, 06 April 1980 |
| 49 | Stoned | Sunday, 13 April 1980 |
| 51 | Monkey's Yearning | |
| 52 | At the Top of the Mountain | Sunday, 04 May 1980 |
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Directors
Jun Fukuda, Daisuke Yamazaki, Kazuo Ikehiro, Toshi Aoki, Yûsuke Watanabe, Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Yasutaka Tanaka, Satoshi Aoki, Masahiro Takase, Showa Ota
Writers
Cheng'en Wu, James Miki, Motomu Furuta, Hirokazu Fuse, Kunio Yamashita, Yû Tagami, Eizaburo Shiba, Mamoru Sasaki, Moto Nagai, Tetsurô Abe, Yasuhiro Sakurai, Isao Okishima, Yûichirô Yamane, Mutsuo Yamashita, Fumio Ishimori, Yôichi Onaka, Kei Tasaka
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Masaaki Sakai | Monkey / Sun Wu-Kong (Monkey) / Son Gokû |
| Shiro Kishibe | Sandy / Sha Wu-Jing (Sandy) / Sa Gojô |
| Masako Natsume | Tripitaka / Xuanzang Sanzang (Tripitaka) / Sanzô Hôshi |
| Miriam Margolyes | (voice) |
| Andrew Sachs | Horse / Horse (voice) / Yu-Lung (season 2) |
| Peter Woodthorpe | Pigsy / Pigsy (voice) |
| David Collings | Monkey / Monkey (voice) |
| Peter Marinker | (voice) |
| Gareth Armstrong | Sandy / Sandy (voice) |
| Cecile Chevreau | Buddha / Buddha (voice) |
| Maria Warburg | Tripitaka |
| Shunji Fujimura | Horse / Gyokuryû |
| Jun Negami | Master Jin |
| Toshiyuki Nishida | Pigsy (season 1) / Zhu Ba-Jie (Pigsy season 1) |
| Tonpei Hidari | Pigsy (season 2) / Cho Hakkai |
| Takayuki Akutagawa | Self - Narrator / Narrator |
| Mieko Takamine | Buddha Nyorai |
| Akiko Wada | Kishibojin |
| Taeko Hattori | Kibi |
| Atsuo Nakamura | Emperor Taizong |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| John Ledford | Executive Producer |
| Tsuneo Hayakawa | Producer |
| Yôji Katori | Producer |
| Kazuo Morikawa | Producer |
| Muneo Yamada | Producer |
| Sadamasa Arikawa | Producer |
