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Hana Yori Dango

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Details

  • Title: 花より男子
  • Title (romaji): Hana Yori Dango
  • Also known as: Boys Before Flowers / Boys Over Flowers
  • Format: Renzoku, across two seasons
  • Genre: Romance
  • Broadcast network: TBS
  • Air time: Friday 22:00
  • Related dramas: see Boys Over Flowers (disambiguation)

Season 1

Hana Yori Dango
  • Episodes: 9
  • Viewership rating: 19.68 (Kanto), 19.32 (Kansai)
  • Broadcast period: 2005-Oct-21 to 2005-Dec-16
  • Theme song: WISH by Arashi
  • Insert song: Planetarium by Otsuka Ai

Synopsis

Makino Tsukushi is the only poor student at Eitoku Gakuen, the school of the ridiculously rich and privileged that is ruled by Flower 4 or F4, a group of four boys who come from extremely powerful families: Domyoji Tsukasa, the leader and heir of the Domyoji World Finance Group; Hanazawa Rui, the introverted son of a large company; Nishikado Sojiro, a player who is the heir of a tea ceremony school; and Mimasaka Akira, a madam killer with ties to the underground. If a student gets on the F4's bad side, he/she gets a red notice and is bullied and driven out of school.

Makino hopes to pass her days quietly-- without drawing any attention to herself-- but one day, she stands up to Domyoji in defense of her friend. The next day, Makino gets the dreaded red notice. Even though she is harassed, Makino decides to keep going to school because she is a "tough weed". She declares war right back on the F4. Her resolve gets the attention of her crush Hanazawa Rui and oddly enough, rouses romantic feelings in her worst enemy, Domyoji Tsukasa.

The series is based on the Japanese shoujo manga "Hana Yori Dango" (Boys Before Flowers) by Kamio Yoko.

User/Viewer Ratings

4.13
(8 votes)

Cast

Correlation chart

Guests

Production Credits

Episode Information

Episode Subtitle Ratings
(Kanto)
Ratings
(Kansai)
01 Declaration of war! The thing which is absolutely more important than money 18.3 14.5
02 The worst first kiss! 19.3 19.6
03 Tears! Good-bye to the person I like 20.5 19.7
04 First time coming home in the morning 20.7 21.1
05 Confession of life-threatening love 19.0 19.7
06 A love triangle of a roller-coaster ride hair-trigger crisis 19.7 20.0
07 Battle F4 dissolution! 17.3 15.5
08 Now the female high school student's "Top of Japan" decision war 19.9 21.3
09 The greatest last present 22.4 22.5
Average 19.68 19.32

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Trivia

  • Actor Takuma Takayuki, who is also the screenwriter for this drama (credited as Satake Mikio), appears in ep 4-9 as the men Okami-san (Kato Takako) loved. He portrayed characters such as John Lennon, Tora-san, similar to Tadano Hitoshi and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Awards

Season 2

Hana Yori Dango 2
  • Episodes: 11
  • Viewership rating: 21.7 (Kanto), 21.0 (Kansai)
  • Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-05 to 2007-Mar-16
  • Theme song: Love So Sweet by Arashi
  • Insert song: Flavor of Life by Utada Hikaru

Synopsis

This second season of Hana Yori Dango picks up right after Domyoji leaves for New York. After confessing to Domyoji, Makino has not spoken to him for a year. Rui and the other members of F4 try and help Makino meet Domyoji again by going to New York for the christmas holidays. Though F4 and Makino meet Domyoji again, he has become a completely different person, and so they leave for Japan.

Some time later, Domyoji's mother annouces that they will be returning to Japan. There, they hold a giant super-rich and classy birthday party for Domyoji and announce something very important. Domyoji, like in the first season, is engaged to a rich girl and heir, Shigeru. The only difference is that they are to be wed soon. What will Makino do?

On the side, Rui begins to fall in love with Makino... will this become a love... square?

Cast

Correlation Chart

Guests

Production Credits

Episode Information

Episode Subtitle Ratings
(Kanto)
Ratings
(Kansai)
01 One year later... At last, it returns!!
This time the stage is New York!!
New developments in love and friendship
full of ups and downs... —But wasn't it
supposed to be a happy ending!?
19.4 20.7
02 The strongest rival 20.1 19.6
03 Bye bye, stupid guy 19.2 19.9
04 Perilous battle 23.1 20.6
05 We like you 20.3 19.5
06 Confession turns chaotic!! 21.0 20.1
07 Once-in-a-lifetime first love 21.0 21.1
08 The love square is settled 22.7 20.8
09 Painful goodbye in the rain 22.3 20.8
10 Lost memories 21.9 21.1
11 The world's best proposal ever 27.6 26.0
Average 21.7 21.0

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Trivia

  • Makino's apartment is the same location setting for the dormitory scenes for the movie Honey & Clover (ハチミツとクローバー).

Awards

Movie

  • The movie sequel to the drama, titled 'Hana Yori Dango Final' was released in Japan on June 28, 2008.

External Links




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Season 1
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Autumn 2006
Season 2
Spring 2007
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