(lit. "Journey to the West"), also known by its English title
Monkey, also commonly referred to as "
Monkey Magic" (the show's title song), is a Japanese television drama based on the Chinese novel,
Journey to the West, by
Wu Cheng'en. Filmed in north-west
China and
Inner Mongolia, the show was produced by
Nippon Television (NTV) and International Television Films in association with
NHK, and broadcast from 1978 to 1980 on Nippon Television.