It Started with a Kiss
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Details
- Title: 惡作劇之吻 (恶作剧之吻) / O Tso Chu Chih Wen (E Zuo Ju Zhi Wen)
- English Title: It Started with a Kiss
- Genre: Romance / Comedy
- Broadcast network: CTV / GTV
- Related shows: Itazura na Kiss (TV Asahi, 1996), Mischievous Kiss (MBC, 2010), Itazura na Kiss ~ Love in TOKYO (Fuji TV TWO, 2013), Miss In Kiss (PPTV/Line TV, 2016)
User/Viewer Ratings
Season 1
- Episodes: TV: 20, DVD: 30
- Broadcast period: 2005-Sep-25 to 2006-Feb-12
- Air time: Sunday 22:00
- Opening theme song: Say U Love Me by Jason and Lara
- Ending theme song: E Zuo Ju by Wang Lan Yin
- Insert songs: See It Started with a Kiss OST
Synopsis
After an earthquake destroyed Xiang Qin's house, she and her father moved in with the family of her father's college buddy, Uncle Ah Li. To her surprise, the kind and amicable aunt and uncle are the parents of her cold and distant schoolmate Jiang Zhi Shu, a genius with an IQ of 200 who not too long ago rejected her endless crush on him. Will the proximity give her a second chance to win Zhi Shu's heart? Or, will her love for him end under his cold words? What happens when there is competition for his heart?
Cast
- Ariel Lin as Yuan Xiang Qin
- Joe Cheng as Jiang Zhi Shu
- Jiro Wang as Jin Yuan Feng
- Hsu Wei Ning as Pei Zi Yu
- Cyndi Chao as Jiang Zhao Zi
- Zhang Yong Zheng as Jiang Ah Li
- Tang Tsung Sheng as Yuan You Cai
- Zhang Bo Han as Jiang Yu Shu
- Candice Liu as Liu Ya Nong
- Petty Yang as Lin Chun Mei
- Jason as Wang Hao Qian
- Bianca Bai as Bai Hua Lan
- Qian De Men as Director Bai
- Lai Zhi Wei as Du Jian Zhong
- Wu Wen Hong as Ah Hong (Ah Jin's friend)
- Wang Di Jun as Zhang Lang (Ah Jin's friend)
- Chen Bo Zheng as Kong Ling Yang (High School Principal)
- Hong Jiao Nang as Yang Da Xin (Xiang Qin's teacher)
- Yvonne Yao as Wen Zhen Guan (Zhi Shu's teacher)
- Lee Shiau Shiang as Chang Wu Ren
- Aaron Yan as Chun Mei's boyfriend, Ah Bu
- Nikki Hsieh as Pei Zi Qi
- Kitamura Toyoharu as Qing Yu
Production Credits
- Producer: Chen Zhi Han 陳芷涵, Jerry Feng 馮家瑞, Qi Yang Lin 齊鍚麟, Wang Xin Gui 王信貴
- Director: Qu You Ning
- Screenwriter: Qi Yang Lin 齊鍚麟
Trivia
- The series was based on the Japanese shoujo manga "Itazura na Kiss" (Mischievous Kiss) by Tada Kaoru. There are 23 volumes of the manga. There is no ending for the manga; the series was still running in Margaret when the author passed away at the age of 38 from a brain aneurysm.
- The filming of It Started with a Kiss lasted one entire year. Some scenes were filmed in different seasons, which resulted in many goofs.
- The director, Qu You Ning, made two cameos in the drama: One as the fat, middle-aged woman on a bus who accuses Ah Jin was harassing of her and another as Zhi Shu's boyfriend in Xiang Qin's imagination (birthday gift giving scene).
- The show's highest rating was 5.77%
Season 2
- Title: 惡作劇2吻 (恶作剧2吻) / O Tso Chu 2 Wen (E Zuo Ju 2 Wen)
- English title: They Kiss Again
- Episodes: 20
- Broadcast period: 2007-Dec-16 to 2008-Apr-27
- Air time: Sunday 22:00
- Opening theme song: Xing Fu He Zuo She by Mavis Fan
- Ending theme song: Ni by Ariel Lin
- Insert songs: see They Kiss Again OST
Synopsis
The sequel of It Started With A Kiss begins with Xiang Qin and Zhi Shu's wedding and honeymoon.
Even after marriage, they experience problems and interferences within their marriage such as mistaken pregnancy, misunderstandings, and newfound jealousies. Xiang Qin and Zhi Shu switch to medical school to become a nurse and a doctor. During that time, Zhi Shu meets new rivals who wish to outdo him and Xiang Qin makes four new friends, and one of them likes her and wishes to replace Zhi Shu.
How will their lives turn out to be?
Cast
- Ariel Lin as Yuan Xiang Qin
- Joe Cheng as Jiang Zhi Shu / Evan
- Jiro Wang as Jin Yuan Feng
- Zhang Yong Zheng as Jiang Ah Li
- Cyndi Chao as Jiang Zhao Zi
- Tang Tsung Sheng as Yuan You Cai
- Zhang Bo Han as Jiang Yu Shu
- Cong Yang (崇洋) as teenage Yu Shu
- Coworkers
- Danson Tang as Ouyang Gan
- Figaro Tseng as Yang Qi Tai
- Bernice Tsai as Luo Zhi Yi
- Jiang Pei Zhen (江佩珍) as Zhang Ni Na
- Xiu Jie Kai as Zhou Chuan Jin
- Ma Nien Hsien as Du Ze Sen
- Hu Pei Ying (胡珮瑩) as Zhao Qing Shui
- Zhu De Gang as Zhang Xi Hen
- Former Classmates
- Jason as Wang Hao Qian
- Hsu Wei Ning as Pei Zi Yu
- Candice Liu as Liu Nong
- Petty Yang as Lin Chun Mei
- Kitamura Toyoharu as Qing Yu
- Lin Jia Yu (林珈妤) as childhood Lin Hao Mei
- Summer Meng as teenage Lin Hao Mei
- Others
- Larisa Bakurova as Christine Robinson
- Senda Aisa as Mary
- Gu Xuan Chun as Ah Qiao
- Wang Zi as Ah Nuo
- Aaron Yan as Ah Bu
- Billie as Ah Bu's mother
- Joelle Lu as Jun Ya's mother
- Guan Jia Yun (關嘉芸) as Zhang Jun Ya
- Qiu Xiu Min (邱秀敏) as Qiu Wang Yao
- Apple Lin as Xu Qiu Xian
- Qu You Ning
- Relatives
- Guan Cong (關聰) as Zhi Shu's grandfather
- Lin Yu Feng (林裕豐) as Xiang Qin's uncle
Production Credits
- Producer: Chen Zhi Han 陳芷涵, Jerry Feng 馮家瑞, Wang Xin Gui 王信貴
- Director: Qu You Ning
Episode Ratings
| Episode | Nationwide |
|---|---|
| 01 | 3.62 |
| 02 | 3.49 |
| 03 | 3.07 |
| 04 | 3.22 |
| 05 | 3.33 |
| 06 | 3.83 |
| 07 | 3.51 |
| 08 | 3.94 |
| 09 | 3.37 |
| 10 | 3.25 |
| 11 | 3.43 |
| 12 | 2.72 |
| 13 | 2.89 |
| 14 | 2.77 |
| 15 | 2.53 |
| 16 | 2.84 |
| 17 | 2.96 |
| 18 | 2.81 |
| 19 | 2.44 |
| 20 | 3.39 |
| average | 3.17 |
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