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Meteor Garden
GenreRomance
Comedy
StarringJerry Yan
Vic Zhou
Vanness Wu
Ken Chu
Barbie Hsu
Opening theme(情非得已) by Harlem Yu (庾澄慶)
Ending theme(你要的愛) The Love You Want by Penny Dai (戴佩妮)
Country of originTaiwan
Original languagesMandarin Chinese, Taiwanese
No. of episodes19 episodes
Production
Production locationTaiwan
Original release
Release2001-04-12 –
2001-08-16

Meteor Garden (Chinese: 流星花園; pinyin: Liu Xing Hua Yuan) is a Taiwanese drama that began its broadcast 12 April 2001 on CTS. It is Taiwan's attempt at a live version of the Japanese manga Hana Yori Dango. It stars Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Vanness Wu, Ken Chu and Barbie Hsu.

Meteor Garden was very popular in Asia. Due to the popularity of the series throughout Asia, two sequels, Meteor Rain and Meteor Garden II, were produced.

Plot

The story centers on a plain and poor teenage girl called Shan Cai, who goes to a university for rich people, forced upon her by her parents. The university is dominated by a gang of handsome but arrogant students called F4, who are the heirs of the most influential families in Taiwan.

In the beginning, Dao Ming Si, the gang leader, hates Shan Cai so much that he makes everyone in the university play tricks on her. However, Shan Cai's persistence gradually gains Si's respect and later he falls in love with her. Like many other TV series, the lovers end up getting together after going through a series of painful challenges.


Cast

Main Cast

  • (徐熙媛 Xú Xīyuàn) as Shan Cai (杉菜)
  • (言承旭 Yán Chéngxù) as Dao Ming Si (道明寺)
  • (周渝民 Zhōu Yúmín) as Hua Ze Lei (花澤类)
  • (朱孝天 Zhū Xiàotiān) as Xi Men (西門)
  • (吳建豪 Wú Jiànháo) as Mei Zuo Ling (美作玲)

Supporting Cast

Difference from other versions

  • Hana Yori Dango has a more concrete ending than the first season of Meteor Garden, events include Doumyoji and Tsukushi being together, and Rui reunites with his first love which did not happened in Meteor Garden.
  • Shan Cai's Japanese counterpart, Tsukushi, had a younger brother in Hana Yori Dango who played a small part in the story.

Trivia

  • Zhen Xiu Zhen is frequently mistaken for Liu Xue Hua. She seems to bear certain facial similarities to the mother of Girls Marching On.
  • Shan Cai's mother sings the first two lines of Teresa Teng's song "When Will You Return" in some scenes.
  • Spawned 2 sequels (Meteor Rain and Meteor Garden II) due to its high ratings in Taiwan.
  • Meteor Garden remains as the highest rated Asian drama overall shown in the Philippines garnering a 57.4% peak rating with an average rating of 42.9% in mega Manila and a peak of 73.0% nationwide with an average of 62.0% which was shown over ABS-CBN. The replay value was just so high, that when it was replayed again every Saturday and Sunday, it rated an amazing 42.0% on its finale.
  • The show was aired five times in the Philippines, three times on ABS-CBN, once on GMA Network and in Q TV . Its first airing was in 2003, a replay on weekends in the same year, then in 2005 it was re-aired again due to insistent public demand in the same network. In 2007, ABS-CBN's rival station, GMA Network re-airs the show in their own re-dubbed version, and year 2008 GMA's affiliated network Q TV aired the show again.
  • F4 members are now officially known as JVKV, after Japanese TV producers decided to use the name F4 in the live version of the anime "Hana Yori Dango".
  • Meteor Garden, Meteor Rain and Meteor Garden 2 are the most reran Taiwanese drama soaps aired on ATV World, having played a total of three times for seasons one and 2, and two for Meteor Rain, including their run on cable channel TVB Classic.
  • The Korean version Boys Over Flowers was produced by KBS in Korea.
  • Hunan TV China will be doing their own version entitled Meteor Shower.
  • The Filipino Television Show MTB made a parody of Meteor Garden called Miniture Garden wherein the actors are all midgets
  • After the sucess of Boys Over Flowers or Meteor Garden ABS-CBN was inspired to buy this series to aired very soon and to become a popular TV Adaptation it will star with Sarah Geronimo as San Di/San Cai, John Lloyd Cruz as Daion Licup, John Lloyd Cruz, Rayver Cruz, Vhong Navarro, Billy Crawford as the F4 with Roxanne Barcelo as Xiao You it will air Soon on ABS-CBN.

See also

Dao Ming Si will be portrayed by local hunk Luis Manzano

References

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