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| Cast of the Korean TV version of "Boys over Flowers" |
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"Boys Over Flowers" is a Japanese shōjo manga series by Yoko Kamio that ran continuously from October 1992 to September 2003. The manga has been remade into 3 television drama series in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea, along with one spin-off, 2 live-action movies, 1 anime movie and also an anime series. Hana yori Dango is the best-selling shōjo manga in Japan of all time with 54 million copies in print as of 2005.
"Boys over Flowers" is the story of Makino Tsukushi, a 16-year-old girl from the wrong side of the tracks who is a new student at Eitoku Gakuen, a very exclusive school that is attended by the richest of society's children. At first she choses to stay unknown for the remaining two years of her stay at the school. But her one and only friend gets in trouble with the F4, and Tsukushi stands up for her friend on "Boys over Flowers." She receives a red card and that's when all the confusion begins on "Boys over Flowers." The F4 are Hanazawa Rui, Nishikado Soujirou, Mimasaka Akira and Doumyouji Tsukasa, who is the ringleader of the group on "Boys over Flowers."
On "Boys over Flowers," Tsukushi's unexpected resistance piques Doumyouji's interest. Her strength proves to be attractive to him, and he ends up having a crush on her, even though they are "at war" with each other. Tsukushi, on the other hand, does not seem to be that impressed with the rich, arrogant Doumyouji, and instead finds herself attracted to another member of the F4 on "Boys over Flowers": the quiet, sensitive violin player, Hanazawa Rui. This sets up an explosive triangle of love-and-hate relationships on "Boys over Flowers," as Tsukushi finds herself in the middle of a tug of war between Rui and Doumyouji. Tsukushi has to face the pressure of the school's rapidly shifting opinion of her, her status as a poor girl in a rich school, and her attraction to the cool-but-mysterious Rui while at the same time dealing with the advances of Doumyouji on "Boys over Flowers."
Genre: Drama Runtime: 60 mins.
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