Meteor Garden
Meteor Garden is a 2001 drama starring Ken Chu, Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Vanness Wu and Barbie Hsu. It relies on Japanese sh?jo manga show, Boys Over Flowers, written by Yoko Kamio. It had been created by Comic Ritz International Production with Angie Chai as producer and led by Cai Yuexun.
The show was initially broadcast in Taiwan on Chinese Television System on 16 April 2001 in 1-2 August 2001. An additional mini-series, Meteor Rain was first produced in April 2001 and the sequel Meteor Garden II has been broadcast out of 11 November 2002 to 25 December 2002. The show is the very first television adaptation of this manga, followed by its sequel Meteor Garden II and Japanese Hana Yori Dango, South Korean Boys along with its own sequel Hana Yori Dango Returns Over Flowers.
At the conclusion of the series, F4 Jerry Yan, Vic Zhou, Vanness Wu and Ken Chu continued to perform together and released three studio albums. They ceased the use of their name"F4" at 2007 at the objection of Japanese publisher Shueisha, who owns the copyright to Hana Yori Dango, to avoid any confusion with the Japanese and South Korean version of the LiveAction adaptations of their manga. The group has since been renamed"JVKV", from the very first initial of their quartet as a way of descending age.
Released: 2001-04-21