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TV Show: Meteor Garden
Chinese: 流星花园 (Liu xing hua yuan)
Director: Yueh-Hsun Tsai
Writer: Yoko Kamio (manga)
Network: CTS
Episodes: 19
Release Date: April 21, 2001 -
Runtime: Thurs. 21:00
Language: Mandarin
Country: Taiwan

Plot

A poor teenage girl named Shan Cai attends Ying De University, a private school established exclusively for rich students. The university is dominated by a gang of handsome but arrogant students known as F4. Dai Ming is the F4 leader and the other members are Hua Ze Lei, Xi Men, and Mei Zuo - all of whom are heirs to the richest families in Taiwan.

Shan Cai then becomes the target of F4's Dao Ming's contempt. In the past no other students stood up to the F4, but Shan Cai does so. This in turn piques the interest of Dao Ming enough that he soon finds himself falling for Shan Cai. Meanwhile Shan Cai finds herself falling for another F4 member, the gentle Hua Ze Lei ...

Notes

Based on Yoko Kamio's Japanese shojo manga series "Hana yori Dango".
The original Japanese title "Hana Yori Dango" or ""Boys Over Flowers" is a pun on the Japanese old saying "Dumplings over flowers," referring to people who attend Hanami (flower festival), but instead of enjoying flowers, focus more on the materialistic side of the event such as getting food and buying souvenirs.
Meteor Garden not only became a smash hit in Taiwan, but become one of the more popular dramas ever in Hong Kong and the Phillipines.
Related titles
1. Boys Over Flowers | Hana Yori Dango (1995)
2. Boys Over Flowers | | Hana Yori Dango (TV Asahi / 1996) * Animation
3. Boys Over Flowers | | Hana Yori Dango (TV Asahi / 1997) * Animation
4. Meteor Garden | Liu xing hua yuan (CTS / 2001) * Taiwanese remake
5. Meteor Rain | Liu Xing Yu (CTS / 2002) * Taiwanese remake
6. Meteor Garden 2 | Liu xing hua yuan 2 (CTS / 2002) * Taiwanese remake
7. Boys Over Flowers | Hana Yori Dango (TBS / 2005)
8. Hana yori Dango 2 (Returns) Bangai hen - Makinoke Hajimete no Kazoku Ryoko in N.Y. (2007)
9. Boys Over Flowers 2 | Hana Yori Dango 2 (TBS / 2007)
10. Boys Over Flowers: Final | Hana yori dango: Fainaru (2008)
11. Boys Over Flowers | Kkotboda Namja (KBS2 / 2009) * South Korean remake

Cast

Barbie Hsu - Shan Cai
Jerry Yan - Dao Ming Si
Vic Zhou - Hua Ze Lei
Ken Zhu - Xi Men
Vanness Wu - Mei Zuo
Mary Hsu - Dao Ming Zhuang
Edward Ou - Qing He
Winnie Qian - Teng Tang Jing
Chi-xing Teng - Shan Cai's father
Yue Wang - Shan Cai's mother
Rainie Yang - Xiao You
Xiu-zhen Zhen - Dao Ming Feng

Comments

Comment #3
Akiko Says:
Jan 23 2012 9:06 am

I remember getting addicted to this series and after watching the entire first season a for three days, finished the last episode just a few minutes ago, I'm vouch that I'm still hooked as the first time I watched the series a decade ago. Still the best IMO among the Hana Yori Dango adaptation.
Comment #2
danielle13 Says:
Jul 13 2010 5:49 am

i`ll miss meteor garden all the episodes that was amazing OMG!!!!!!!!!!!WOW
Comment #1
atenikuia12 Says:
May 31 2009 11:54 pm

i really love this show..
i can't imagine myself getting so hook with the story..
hope to watch this again=]