Tuesday 17 February 2009

When Dolphin Met Cat

Alternative Title: 海豚愛上貓 / Hai Tun Ai Shang Mao
Genre: Romance
Film Date: July, 2005
Total Episodes: 14
Taiwan Casts: Angela Zhang, Joelle Lu, Monie Tung, Peng Yu Yan, Zhang Zhi Yao

Description:
Unable to cope with the grief of losing his best friend and then his beloved grandfather, Xu Wei shut the world out. In search of redemption, he escaped to Hualian, a place his grandfather often talked about with fondness. There, he began working as a dolphin trainer. Through his work with the dolphins, he gradually opened his heart to the people around him.

The Rose

Alternative Title: 薔薇之戀 (蔷薇之恋) / Qiang Wei Zhi Lian
Genre:
Family, Romance
Film Date: July, 2003
Total Episodes: 26
Taiwan Casts: Hebe, Huang Zhu Wei, Joelle Lu, Selina, Zeng Guo Cheng

Description:
A stone with an ugly outward appearance and doesn't catch the eye: would people be able to see the glittering gem that's hidden inside?

Being looked down on by people for a long time and treated coldly with indifference, it will gradually turn rusty and lose its brilliance. Or, maybe after experiencing all these hardships, its luster and beauty will be highlighted even more?

Say Yes Enterprise

Alternative Title: 求婚事務所 / Qiu Hun Shi Wu Suo
Genre: Romance
Film Date: January, 2004
Taiwan Casts: Barbie Xu, Cecilia Yip, Dee Hsu, Hebe, Joelle Lu, Lan Chen Long, Nie Yuan, Niu Cheng Ze, Vanness Wu, Winnie Qian, Wu Bai, Xu Gui Ying

Description:
Say Yes Enterprise is a series of 7 different stories that are RELATED

Reaching For The Stars

Alternative Title: 真命天女 / Zhen Ming Tian Nu
Genre: Romance
Film Date: October, 2005
Total Episodes: 22
Taiwan Casts: Ella, Hebe, Selina

Description:
Ren Jie, Zhou Xinlei, and Shen Xiaorou are three girls who were born on the same day but led vastly different lives. On their 22nd birthday, fate brought them together.

In an upscale restaurant, Zhou Jianlong, the chairman of Zhou Group, celebrated the 22nd birthday of his step-daughter, Xinlei. Nothing ever worried Xinlei, because no matter what happened, her step-father would be there to take care of it. However, over the course of the dinner, her stepfather suffered a heart attack and died.

Little did anyone know that Zhou secretly left a will; while the mansion and $50,000,000 would be given to his wife and step-daughter, all of his company stocks would belong to his missing birth daughter. Upon hearing this, the ambitious executive vice chairman, along with his right-hand man, hired Ren Jie to assume the role of the missing daughter. Using Ren Jie, he could control the entire company.

Meanwhile, policewoman Shen Xiaorou was upset because the pervert she caught was released on bail. She went out to search for him and beat the crap out of him. Her actions caused her to be reprimanded by her superior. In a fit of rage, she quit her job. Afterwards, she went to Zhou Group to apply as a security guard, and eventually ended up being Ren Jie's bodyguard.

Peach Girl

Alternative Title: Mi Tao Nu Hai
Genre: Drama
Film Date: January, 2002
Total Episodes: 13
Taiwan Casts: Annie Wu, Kenji Wu / Ken Wu, Michelle Gu, Vanness Wu

Description:
Xiao Tao is a young girl entering college. Things just don't seem to be going right for her. She falls at the beach and spraining her ankle; she has unwittingly made the university's reigning princess, Sha Hui, her enemy. Dong Si, her secret crush, doesn't seem to know of her feelings, but she has the school's most popular playboy and troublesome, Ah Li, showering her with his attentions! This may prove to be just too much for the tall, shy and athletic Xiao Tao until suddenly happiness comes her way: she and Dong Si begin dating! This happiness is short lived as the calculating Sha Hui is determined to be the number one girl, even if it means destroying Xiao Tao in the process. Also, standing on the sidelines is Ah Li who has made it known that the only girl for him is Xiao Tao. Can Dong Si and Xiao Tao manage to keep their relationship afloat? Will Sha Hui succeed in her devious plans? Or will Xiao Tao realise that the one that is truly for her is Ah Li?

Based on the shoujo manga by Miwa Ueda this is a story about jealousy, revenge, the powers of love and friendship and the ties of fate that bind people together.

Nine Ball

Alternative Title: 撞球小子 / Zhuang Qiu Xiao Zi
Genre: Action
Film Date: January, 2005
Total Episodes: 20
Taiwan Casts: David Chen, Joe Cheng, Shen Meng Sheng, Xu Wei Lun

Description:
You Li is from a small town in the South. He is an orphan who would normally use playing billiards as a gambling match to earn money – “Billiard boy”. It is through the internet that he gets acquainted with rich girl, Ah Yin and falls in love. On a certain day, a group of people comes from Taipei to the billiard gallery from the Shao Shi Enterprise. The purpose is to discuss with the gallery the matter of taking over the place. The leader is a good billiard player, whose nickname is called "Kuai Da Whirlwind”. He brought along with him his assistant, Bao Long as well as two other followers. There was also a young girl and unexpectedly, she is Ah Yin.

My MVP Valentine

Alternative Title: MVP 情人 / MVP Qing Ren
Genre: Sports
Film Date: December, 2002
Total Episodes: 28
Taiwan Casts: Angela Zhang, David Chen, Lin Li Wen , Tony Sun, Yan Xing Shu

Description:
In this drama based on basketball (and somewhat on the anime Slam Dunk), a Taiwanese national team basketballer, Yan Xing Shu plays the lead Duan Chen Feng, whose world consists of his 2 greatest loves: basketball and his girlfriend, Xiao Xi (Angela Zhang). They find their perfect world shattered, however, when on the day of his most important match, Duan Chen Feng has an accident on his way to the competition, and paralyses Angel (Margaret Lin), who just happens to be the sister of Iceman (David Chen), his biggest opponent since they were young. To shoulder his responsibilty, Chen Feng leaves school and his basketball so that he can take care of Angel. Xiaoxi, who does not know the reason behind Chen Feng's leaving school and giving up his beloved basketball, is heartbroken and bewildered. At about the same time, the other lead male character Tai Zi, or Prince (Tony Sun of 5566), enters the plot. He falls in love with Xiao Xi's plucky and determined character.chen feng's gentleness to angel causes angel to have feelings for him....how complicated can this love triangle be?

Mr Fighting

Alternative Title: Ge Dou Tian Wang / Mr. Fighting
Genre: Action, Romance
Film Date: January, 2005
Total Episodes: 20
Taiwan Casts: Esther Liu, Joanne Zeng , Tony Sun, Zax Wang

Description:
Duan Yu Qiao, who introduced the T.F.K.C. Professional Competition, aside from being recognized as the international champion of fist-fighting, he is also the son of Duan Shi Entertainment Enterprise. Knowing that his father and the Ye family used to be sworn enemies in fist-fighting and that they had a fallout in the past, plus the downfall of the Ye family, Yu Qiao plans to rebuild the only property that is left of the Ye family, “Fist-fighting Hall”, which is purchased by Duan Shi Entertainment Enterprise, into a commercial building. Repeated urges and uses of force to get rid of the people in the Hall did little good as they all stay put and refuse to leave. Therefore, Yu Qiao decides to go there personally to take matters into his own hands. When he gets there, he finds out much to his surprise that the owner of the Hall is a feisty and stubborn girl – Ye You Li. She leads several male students to stand up to Yu Qiao. You Li’s attitude is very tough and she swears to protect the “Fist-fighting Hall”, refusing to compromise. On the contrary, You Li left a lasting impression on Yu Qiao and he swears that he will pursue her until he gets her. Under Yu Qiao’s repeated help, his father’s persistence is finally broken down and he decided to change the relationship with the “Fist-fighting Hall” as that of a landlord and a tenant. The crisis of demolishing the Hall will be placed on temporary hold and Yu Qiao and You Li’s feelings for each other also gradually starts to grow.

Meteor Rain

Alternative Title: 流星雨 / Liu Xing Yu
Genre: Romance
Film Date: January, 2001
Total Episodes: 3
Taiwan Casts: Jerry Yan, Ken Zhu, Rainie Yang, Sato Mai, Senda Aisa, Vanness Wu, Vic Zhou

Description:
These are the side stories of Meteor Garden I... Liu Xing Yu. There are 3 separate stories for each of the F3, namely, Dao Ming Si, Xi Men and Mei Zuo. They happened in different times... before and during Meteor Garden I.

Meteor Garden 2

Alternative Title: 流星花園 / Liu Xing Hua Yuan
Genre: Drama
Film Date: April, 2002
Total Episodes: 31
Taiwan Casts: Barbie Xu, Jerry Yan, Ken Zhu, Michelle Saram , Vanness Wu, Vic Zhou

Description:
F4 graduates from Ying De Xue Yuan. Dao Ming Si invites Shan Cai to go on F4's graduation trip with them to Spain, which is actually F4's way of letting Shan Cai and Dao Ming Si spend some time alone. Dao Ming Si and Shan Cai becomes inseparable during the trip. Just before Shan Cai and Si leave for Spain, Hua Ze Lei gave Ah Si an envelope with a "smart advice" in it. When Ah Si opens the envelope, he finds that the advice from Hua Ze Lei was to ask Shan Cai to marry him in an old church with a legend. Dao Ming Si buys a "Meteor Ring" which Shan Cai had her eyes on, and prepares to propose to her in a church that had special meanings of "love".

However, on the way to the church, Dao Ming Si gets into a car accident which had causes him to lose his memory. He met Ye Sha at that time, who helps him and looks after him. The sudden disappearance of Ah Si causes Shan Cai to worry, so she asks Jing to help her. The other three members of F4 also came to Spain immediately after they hear the news.

What follows is a story full of ups and downs as Shan Cai tries to find Dao Ming Si and help him regain his memory.

In this continued story of Meteor Garden, the love story of Xi Men and Mei Zuo are shown. The reason why Xi Men is such a playboy is revealed, as well as Mei Zuo's own love story since he was in elementary school.

Meteor Garden

Alternative Title: 流星花園 / Liu Xing Hua Yuan
Genre: Drama
Film Date: April, 2001
Total Episodes: 27
Taiwan Casts: Barbie Xu, Jerry Yan, Ken Zhu, Vanness Wu, Vic Zhou

Description:
Shan Cai, a lower middle class citizen, is attending Ying De University, the private school made exclusively for rich citizens. Besides being looked down upon by rich classmates, she has angered the leader of F4, Dao Ming Si. F4 comprises of Dao Ming Si, Hua Ze Lei, Xi Men, and Mei Zuo, who are the heirs to the four richest families and they donated a lot of money to the school so nobody dares to challenge them. This poor girl dared to attack DMS, which nobody has done before, and made DMS sprout an interest toward her. However, his constant torture of her has made her hate him, but made her fall in love with Hua Ze Lei, who helped her during DMS's torturing. Can DMS get her love through his cold and cruel exterior? Will their love last when everyone is trying to break them up? What happens when his fiancee comes and his mother has used all the worst ways to keep her from him?

Mars

Alternative Title: 戰神 / Zhan Shen
Genre: Action, Romance , Suspense
Film Date: August, 2004
Total Episodes: 21
Taiwan Casts: An Jun Can , Barbie Xu, Megan Lai, Vic Zhou, Xiu Jei Kai

Description:
A shy artistic girl, Qi Luo (Barbie Xu), is approached by a the care-free and play-boy Chen Ling (Vic Zhou), who asked Qi Luo for directions to a hospital. In a split-second Ling forgets what the hospital name was. Hurriedly Qi Luo draws a map for him, unknowing that she was drawing on the back of one her drawings. Ling thanked her but she ran off before she could hear him, he then noticed the picture and was touched. The next time they had seen each other, Ling told her about the picture but Qi Luo ignored him and said he could keep the picture. Ling was very touched by the picture and that drew him closer and closer towards Qi Luo. But his past comes back to haunt him when a new student arrives as well as Qi Luo's past comes back. Feelings will collide when you have a jealous ex come to stand up and fight for Ling against Qi Luo and an known admirer confesses his feelings to Qi Luo.

Marmalade Boy

Alternative Title: 橘子醬男孩 / Ju Zi Jiang Nan Hai
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Film Date: January, 2002
Total Episodes: 30
Taiwan Casts: Guo Jinchun , Ken Zhu, Stella Huang, Zeng Guo Cheng

Description:
Xiao Shi Chuan Guang Xi finds her life turned upside down, when her parents return from a trip to Hawaii only to tell her that they are getting a divorce. They explain that while they were there that they had met another couple, the Song Pu family, fallen in love, and now decided that each couple would breakup and switch partners. Guang Xi is understandably upset. The whole situation makes no sense to her, and she doesn’t want to see her family broken apart. But if that wasn’t crazy enough, her parents tell her, so that she will not miss having both parents around her, that they, along with the other couple and their son You, would be moving together into a big house making them one big happy family. Needless to say, Guang Xi is not happy about the situation at all, though she does find You to be attractive, a fact that doesn’t escape the notice of her jealous friend, Yin Tai, who has liked her for years, or of Yalishi, You’s ex-girlfriend……

Based off of the acclaimed manga Marmalade Boy by Wataru Yoshizumi

Magic Ring

Alternative Title: 愛情魔戒 / Ai Qing Mo Jie
Genre: Romance
Film Date: October, 2004
Total Episodes: 14
Taiwan Casts: Joe Cheng, Kimi Hsia, Winnie Qian, Wu Zhong Tian

Description:
Xiao Jun slowly wakes up from a train accident. Losing all her memories and left with amnesia, Xiao Jun has no idea who she is or where she is going. Yet the ancient ring that she is wearing on her finger is proof of being the Du family’s eldest son’s fiancé. Therefore, Xiao Jun is confusingly brought to the rich and powerful Du family. The head of the Du family treats her and loves her as if she is his own daughter, causing the pregnant Xiao Jun to experience the feelings of a warm family that she has never felt before.

Love Storm

Alternative Title: 狂愛龍捲風 / Kuang Ai Long Juan Feng
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Film Date: January, 2003
Total Episodes: 21
Taiwan Casts: Ken Zhu, Vic Zhou, Vivian Hsu, Xu Wei Lun

Description:
When love and disaster approaches at the same time, the only road to obtain true love is through bravery!

Jia Le was never able to forget, the day that her aunt got married.

At that time, her aunt of excellent upbringing was forced to break up with the one that she loves by the pressure from the family. But on the day of the wedding, young Jia Le saw with her own eyes, her aunt's lover, for love, he put on a heroic posture that blocks the whole line of cars, including the wedding car.

Love Contract

Alternative Title: 愛情合約 / Ai Qing He Yue
Genre: Romance
Film Date: August, 2004
Total Episodes: 20
Taiwan Casts: Jin Gang, Liu Han Qiang, Mary Hsu, Mike He, Phyllis Quek, Tai Bao, Zhang Rui Jia

Description:
Outwardly, Xiao Feng (Ariel Lin) is a stubborn tomboy and the captain of the Kendo Club at her college. In her group of friends, she is the leader with her demanding nature and abrupt ways. Inwardly however, Xiao Feng is a girl scarred by her past and searching for what she wants most, love. Her friends, Ah Kai (Zhang Rui Jia), Xiao Bai (Lai Zhi Wei ), Mu Tou (Lin Yi Hong), Xin Lei (Zhong Xin Yu, and, Xiao Xiao (Yang Pei Ting) don't know about that part of her past but they are all loyal friends to Xiao Feng; that is, until Xiao Bai and Ah Kai leave the Kendo Club for the Swim Team. Xiao Bai and Ah Kai are immediately regretful when the captain of the Swim Team, Ah Ken, turns out to be a captain as grueling as Xiao Feng. When one night Xiao Feng announces to her friends she wants love the most, Xiao Bai and Ah Ken devise a prank called the love contract. In exchange for finding swim team members to recruit, Ah Ken must court Xiao Feng.

Ko One

Alternative Title: 終極一班 / Zhong Ji Yi Ban
Genre: Action, Comedy , Romance , School
Film Date: November, 2005
Total Episodes: 21
Taiwan Casts: Aaron Yan, Calvin Chen, Jiro Wang, Tang Yu Zhe

Description:
KO One is a class designed especially for the delinquents and rejects that other high schools would not accept. Even so, everyone in the class is loyal to the leader, Da Dong, KO.3, and would die for friends. Tied for #3, Ya Se, and #4, Xiao Yu soon join the class and out of some fortuitous events, their lives become tied together and they become best buddies. Another student, Lex, who had been gone for a whole semester, rejoins the class. Although Lex seems like a weak kid with only good intentions, Ya Se suspects Lex is KO.2 because legend say #1 and #2 are capable of concealing their true identities. At the same time, incidents start to occur and the culprit always leads to Ya Se. Is Ya Se wrongly accused? Will the class be able to stand the politics or will it be driven apart?

It Started With A Kiss

Alternative Title: 惡作劇之吻 / 恶作剧之吻 / E Zuo Ju Zhi Wen
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Film Date: September, 2005
Total Episodes: 30
Taiwan Casts: Ariel Lin , Jiro Wang, Joe Cheng, Tiffany Xu

Description:
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 whom not too long ago rejected her endless crush on him. Will the close 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?

Express Boy

Alternative Title: 惡男宅急電 / Er Nan Zhai Ji Dian
Genre: Human Drama
Total Episodes: 32
Taiwan Casts: Jin Gang, Ke Su Yuan , Mike He, Xu Wei Lun, Zhang Rui Jia

Description:
Express Boy service can deliver any package to anywhere!

After Hu Tie-Nan got out of prison he decided to shed his gangster past and start a package delivery service called "Express Boy." His employees are bunch of misfits like him who are trying to start over

Devil Beside You

Alternative Title: 惡魔在身邊 / Er Mo Zai Shen Bian
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Film Date: June, 2005
Total Episodes: 20
Taiwan Casts: Ivy Fan Xiao Fan, Kingone, Mike He, Rainie Yang, Tsai Pei Lin

Description:
After finally getting the courage to confess her feelings, Qi Yue (Rainie Yang) was handing her love letter to Yuan Yi (Kingone), but by a stroke of bad luck, he did not see and walked passed her. The person standing in front of her was the troublemaker of the school, infamously known for his devilish ways – Jiang Meng (Mike He). The devil will get what he wants, and the object of his desire was Qi Yue. Although having a cruel exterior, Ah Meng’s heart is kind and caring, which truly touched Qi Yue. The big problem remained – Ah Meng is the son of the man Qi Yue’s mother is going to marry. Even though they were not related by blood, who will accept this step brother-sister relationship? What is to become of their relationship when other lovers come into the picture?

100% Senorita

Alternative Title: 千金百分百 / Qian Jin Bai Fen Bai /Twin sisters
Genre: Drama
Film Date: November, 2004
Total Episodes: 40
Taiwan Casts: Chen Qiao En, Jason Hsu, Ke Shu Qin, Penny Lin, Wallace Huo

Description:
Zhu Fang is acting as a fertility mom for other people. During the process of her pregnancy, her maternal instinct was strongly awakened and she is struggling between her pain and her responsibility.

God gave her an opportunity of life and she gave birth to a pair of twin girls. Therefore, she left one of her daughters as a hand over and quietly took the other one away.

Twenty years later

The daughter that she left behind is now "Fu Er Mo Sha" Enterprise's Chairman's daughter - Zhuang Fei Yang. Fei Yang would never forget the day of her 20th birthday.

For the purpose of giving her a surprise at her birthday party, while hurrying home on his helicopter ride, there was an accident and the helicopter fell. The company's core person - general manager, Bi De, is a handsome guy.

Originally he is a very good-looking couple with Fei Yang and is also the person who her father has selected. At the time when Fei Yang is at her weakest moment, Bi De extended his warm shoulder to her. Fei Yang's speeding heart was taken over by Bi De.

One evening, it was initially supposed to be a romantic marriage proposal, but it developed into a cruel conspiracy. The mean and ferocious Bi De, used a damaged car to take the unconscious Fei Yang and pushed it down a cliff…