Journey to the West (TV series)

Journey to the West is a 1986 Chinese live action TV series made by CCTV, adaptation of the literary classic Journey to the West. When it was first aired it received wild praises and now deemed a classic by many. The story is largely taken from the book. Starring Liu Xiao Ling Tong as Sun Wukong, Xu Shaohua as Xuanzang, Ma De Hua as Zhu Bajie and Yan Huai Li as Sha Wujing. It covers most episodes; later (1998) there was a part two to complete the whole novel (for example "The Cave of Red Gold", home to Laozi's oxen who has turned into a demon).

There also exists another three TV adaptations of the same novel. First two were made by TVB, a Hong Kong television station, the first one in 1996, starring Dicky Cheung , and the second one in 1998, starring Benny Chan . The general public was displeased with the second part, mostly due to the recasting of Sun Wukong. Dicky Cheung later reprised his role in Taiwan's 2002 adaptation, which was infamous for being terribly inaccurate.