Director and producer of the 1986 CCTV series 西游记, shot over six years on a small budget. Rerun almost every summer since, it is the Monkey King most Chinese grew up with.
Yang Jie is hailed as a pioneer of Chinese television drama.
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Season one was shot on a single Sony camera, and its scenes set in India were filmed in Thailand. The first 25 episodes have been rebroadcast more than 2,000 times; the closing song is 敢问路在何方, 'May I Ask Where the Road Is'.