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Yang Jie was appointed director of the series in 1982 and developed the screenplay with Dai Yinglu and Sou Yiping. Yang sought to explore the humanity of the original novel’s characters and so focused on the complexities of interpersonal relationships between them in preference to focusing on action sequences. [1]
Journey to the West: With Liu Xiao Ling Tong, Dehua Ma, Huaili Yan, Shaohua Xu. Participate in the legendary long pilgrimage of Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk Tang Shen, who traveled to the western regions of Central Asia and India to obtain sacred Buddhist texts.
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(Chinese: 西遊記 Xī Yóu Jì) is a Chinese mythology TV series adapted from the classic novel with same title. It depicts the Monk Tang Sanzang's pilgrimage to the Vulture Peak with his disciples during the Tang Dynasty in ancient China. The series consists of two seasons, both directed by Yang Jie and produced by CCTV. It received great response from the audience and is widely considered as the best adaptation of the original work. First broadcasted in 1986, the series has been played for thousands of times on TV Networks. It is one of the most popular TV series in Chinese history.
It started filming in 1982, but was released in 1986. That is why some sources refer to it as the 1982 TV Series.
CCTV released the whole series on Youtube.
•Episodes 1-25
The director Yang Jie received the task from the Chinese officials to film the classic novel Journey to the West, which is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. Though the one she really wanted to film is another one from the four great novels called Dream of the Red Chamber, director Yang Jie accepted the task and organized a film crew by 1982. The filming process was extremely tough at that time. Because of the nature of the original work as a mythology, the crew needs to use a lot of special effects in the show. However, with limitation in techniques and experience, making special effects costs the team great amount of money and causes considerable danger at the same time. Almost all of the main casts had experience of falling down when they were hung by the wires several meters above the ground. Despite the difficult conditions, the team managed to finish the first season after 6 years of filming. It was piloted on CCTV in 1986, and all of the 25 episodes were released by 1988. The show was an immediate success after being broadcasted. The viewership rate reached 89.4% in 1987.
In 1998, the crew gathered again to film the rest of the stories from the original work that were not covered in the first season. Since there wasn't a plan to film a second season, the story was already finished by the end of first season. As a result, the crew adapted the uncovered story into flashbacks of the protagonists after they returned to the Tang Empire from the Vulture Peak. The second season consists of 16 episodes and was broadcasted on CCTV in 2000.
One day, a monkey is born from a stone nourished by the essence of the world. He becomes an Immortal after being named as Sun Wukong and practicing Taoist for hundred of years. He makes his name of Great Sage Equal to Heaven (齐天大圣) after starting a war against the Heavens. The Monkey causes great trouble in the Heaven, as almost no one can matches his power. When he finally threats the Jade Emperor to give up his position, the Buddha arrives and manages to trap him under a mountain for five hundred years.
Five hundred years later, a monk called Tang Sanzang in the Tang Empire sets out to bring back Buddhist scriptures from the Vulture Peak in India under the instruction of Guanyin Bodhisattva. He releases the Monkey from the mountain, make him his disciple and meets the other three disciples during the journey. As a team, they experiences 81 tribulations, defeats relentless demons and manages to receive the scriptures from the Buddha at the end of the journey. They then returns to the Tang Empire, spreads the thoughts from the scriptures and tells the emperor about their experiences in the whole trip.
1.http://www.cctv.com/program/ysrs/20040817/101415.shtml
Journey to the West is a Chinese television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on CCTV in China on 1 October 1986. The series became an instant classic in China and is still being praised as the best and most authentic interpretation of the novel. Unadapted portions of the original story ...
Apr 18, 2017 · Born in Hubei province in 1929, Yang once worked at China National Radio and China Central Television. She was listed as one of China's top ten television directors in 1988. The director of the Chinese classic TV drama, Journey to the West, Yang Jie, passed away Saturday.
Journey to the West is a Chinese television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on CCTV in China on 1 October 1986. The series became an instant classic in China and is still being praised as the best and most authentic interpretation of the novel.
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Feb 19, 2015 · 'A Dream of Red Mansions' and 'Journey to the West' were up first. A Dream of Red Mansions was handed to director Wang Fulin of the tv department ( read about my blog post here ) and the latter was handed to the Madam Yang Jie of the literature & arts department.
