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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: Meteor Garden I 2001 Taiwanese version, Boys Before Flowers

Season 1

Hana Yori Dango

Episodes: 9
Viewership rating: 19.6 (Kanto)
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.

Cast

Correlation chart

Inoue Mao as Makino Tsukushi
Matsumoto Jun as Doumyouji Tsukasa
Oguri Shun as Hanazawa Rui
Matsuda Shota as Nishikado Soujiroh
Abe Tsuyoshi as Mimasaka Akira
Sato Megumi as Sanjou Sakurako
Nishihara Aki as Matsuoka Yuki
Seto Saki as Asai Yuriko
Fukada Aki as Ayuhara Erika
Matsuoka Emiko as Yamano Minako
Sada Mayumi as Toudou Shizuka
Kato Takako as Sengoku Sachiyo
Kobayashi Susumu as Makino Haruo (father of Tsukushi)
Tomiura Satoshi as Makino Susumu (brother of Tsukushi)
Ishino Mako as Makino Chieko (mother of Tsukushi)
Kaga Mariko as Domyoji Kaede (mother of Tsukasa)
Matsushima Nanako as Domyoji Tsubaki (sister of Tsukasa)
David Ito as Nishida
Oshinari Shugo as Nakatsuka
Sakai Ayana as Kurimaki Ayano
Handa Kento
Kaku Tomohiro
Sano Kazuma
Igarashi Shunji (ep1)
Takuma Takayuki (ep4-9)
Suzuki Sotaro (ep10)

Production Credits

Original writing: Kamio Yoko
Screenwriter: Satake Mikio, Fujimoto Yuki, Takahashi Natsuko (高橋ナツコ), Arai Shuuko (荒井修子)
Producer: Setoguchi Katsuaki
Director: Ishii Yasuharu, Yamamuro Daisuke, Katayama Osamu
Music: Yamashita Kosuke

Episode Titles

Ep 01: Declaration of war! The thing which is absolutely more important than money
Ep 02: The worst first kiss!
Ep 03: Tears! Good-bye to the person I like
Ep 04: First time coming home in the morning
Ep 05: Confession of life-threatening love
Ep 06: A love triangle of a roller-coaster ride hair-trigger crisis
Ep 07: Battle F4 dissolution!
Ep 08: Now the female high school student's "Top of Japan" decision war
Ep 09: The greatest last present

Episode Ratings

Episode	Kanto	Kansai	Nationwide
01	18.3	14.5	??.?
02	19.3	19.6	??.?
03	20.5	19.7	??.?
04	20.7	21.1	??.?
05	19.0	19.7	??.?
06	19.7	20.0	??.?
07	17.3	15.5	??.?
08	19.9	21.3	??.?
09	22.4	22.5	??.?
Average	19.68	19.32	??.?

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

Trivia

Actor Takuma Takayuki, which 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

47th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Actress (Inoue Mao)
47th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Matsumoto Jun)

Season 2

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Hana Yori Dango 2

Episodes: 11
Viewership rating: 21.7 (Kanto)
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. 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?

Rui --> Makino --> Domyoji --> Shigeru (arranged fiancee of Domyoji)

Cast

Correlation Chart

Inoue Mao as Makino Tsukushi
Matsumoto Jun as Domyoji Tsukasa
Oguri Shun as Hanazawa Rui
Matsuda Shota as Nishikado Sojiro
Abe Tsuyoshi as Mimasaka Akira
Nishihara Aki as Matsuoka Yuuki
Kato Natsuki as Okawahara Shigeru
Seto Saki as Asai Yuriko
Fukada Aki as Ayuhara Erika
Matsuoka Emiko as Yamano Minako
Sato Megumi as Sanjou Sakurako
Sada Mayumi as Toudou Shizuka
David Ito as Nishida
Kato Takako as Sengoku Sachiyo
Tomiura Satoshi as Makino Susumu (brother of Tsukushi)
Kobayashi Susumu as Makino Haruo (father of Tsukushi)
Ishino Mako as Makino Chieko (mother of Tsukushi)
Matsushima Nanako as Domyoji Tsubaki (sister of Tsukasa)
Kaga Mariko as Domyoji Kaede (mother of Tsukasa)
Sato Yuuichi

Guests

Ikuta Toma as Oribe Junpei (ep1)
Yanagisawa Takahiko as Junpei's older brother (ep1)
Kaku Tomohiro as Sawatari Shingo, the bully student (ep1)
Fujisaki Yurie as Maeda Miki (ep1)
Hagiwara Kazuki (ep1)
Oomasa Aya as student of class 3-C
Saito Michi as student of class 3-C
Tsurumi Shingo as Uchida Ken (Domyoji Group employee, ep1-10)
Suigetsu Mai (水月舞) as Uchida Ken's wife (ep1-6)
Hashida Honoka (橋田歩果) as Uchida Ken's child (ep1-6)
Miyazaki Midori (宮崎翠) as Uchida Ken's child (ep1-6)
Asaoka Satoshi (朝岡聡) (ep1,2)
Nishimura Tomomi as Akira's mother (ep3)
Kitayama Imari (北山伊万里) as Akira's sister (ep3)
Kitayama Himawari (北山向日葵) as Akira's sister (ep3)
Kanjiya Shihori as Hinata Sara (ep3-7)
Sasaki Katsuhiko (佐々木勝彦) as Shigeru's father (ep3,8)
Mitani Yumi (三谷侑未) as Shigeru's mother (ep3,8)
Misuzawa Nako as Miyuki (ep5)
Sasaki Sumie as Tama (ep6,9)
Asanuma Shinpei (浅沼晋平) as the principal of Hidenori Gakuen (ep6)
Yatsu Isao (ep6)
Yasuda Yoko (安田洋子) (ep6)
Saito Yukino (斉藤幸乃) as a friend of F4 (ep6)
Morita Konomi (森田このみ) as a friend of F4 (ep6,7)
Tanaka Kei as Hinata Sara's fiance (ep7)
Yakura Akira (矢倉亮) as the husband of Tama (ep8)
Tanaka Natsuko (田中夏子) as young Tama (ep8)
Okayama Hajime as Yuuki's father (ep9)
Hiki Rie as Yuuki's mother (ep9)
Yamamoto Kei (ep10)
Toda Erika as Nakashima Umi (ep10,11)
Higashino Kouji as a member of the rescue team (ep11)
Komoriya Toru (小森谷徹) as the reporter (ep11)
Matsumoto Tamaki