Hana Yori Dango Returns (TV series)
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Hana Yori Dango Returns is a Japan
ese television drama series
, broadcast on TBS
in 2007
. It is the sequel to 2005 Hana Yori Dango
TV series, based on Japanese
shōjo manga
series, , written by Yoko Kamio
, and followed by movie adaptation Hana Yori Dango Final
.
Upon returning to Japan Tsukushi is tortured at school because of the red tag but once again Jun Pei comes to her rescue and in the process reveals his identity as Jun the famous model. Jun tells Tsukushi that he will protect her but then when he leaves he tells his men to take her away and soon Tsukushi finds out that Jun is the bad guy trying to get ahold of Tsukasa in order to get revenge for his friend who was beaten up severely by Tsukasa. During Jun's story Tsukushi manages to escape and is found by Tsukasa's sister Tsubaki who sends her men after Jun Pei. Later Tsukushi confesses to Tsubaki that she still loves Tsukasa but is unsure of what to do to get back with him since he's changed too much.
After a while Tsukushi is invited to Tsukasa's birthday party by his mother Kaede. Tsukushi decides to make him a present similar to the one she gave him when he left for New York and dresses up in a fancy dress which Tsubaki had bought for her. During her son's birthday party Kaede announces Tsukasa's engagement to Okawahara Shigeru, the only daughter of a Japanese oil magnate. After Kaede makes her announcement she embarrasses Tsukushi by calling her up on stage to play the piano which she is unable to do. She congratulates Tsukasa and runs out followed by him and he confronts her about the engagement telling her that she should not have come since it was all part of Kaede's plans. Tsukushi says it doesn't matter since they are no longer in a relationship and before she can complete what she was saying Kaede arrives and agrees with what Tsukushi had said followed by Shigeru who is shocked about the earlier events. Tsukasa then yells at his mother and tries to leave with Tsukushi but instead grabs Shigeru's arm and leaves with her. To make things complicated, Shigeru falls in love with Tsukasa after he grabs her arm and they get into a fight and befriends Tsukushi and decides to make her, her love adviser and confidante. Tsukushi, in an effort to deal with the painful events regarding her past love, immerses herself in her studies to get into law school with the help of Rui. As they grow closer, Rui realizes his true feelings for her. During this time Tsukushi finds out that her family is having money issues and she decides to take a second job in order to help her family with expenses but she finds it too exhausting and collapses during work. She is taken to the hospital and while Tsukasa is at a dinner with Shigeru and her family Nishida informs him about Tsukushi and he rushes off to see her. Just before Tsukasa enters Tsukushi's room he hears Rui's voice and leaves confused about why Rui is there. Later when Tsukushi wakes up she see's Rui realizing that he had stayed the night and when he awakes he kisses her and leaves. When Tsukushi finally gets discharged from the hospital and goes home she finds out that her father was fired and left with her mother to go to a nearby village to become a fisherman in order to earn income. Tsukushi starts packing her belongings and is notified by Yuki that she knows someone in her tea class who might have a place for her and her brother to stay at. They start living in an old building and find out that Tsukasa is living next to them since he had purchased the building and when Tsukushi and Tsukasa have a fight which results in him landing on top of her Shigeru suddenly arrives, sees them and runs out of the building.
Tsukushi tries to run after her but Tsukasa stops her telling her "not to go," she then tells him to leave and he does so. Then Tsukushi's brother Susumu askes Tsukasa for help on how to confess to a girl he met when he took his enterance exam. Tsukasa agrees and gets the rest of F4 to help. Unfortunately when Susumu confesses to to girl he likes, she refuses and he is heart broken. Meanwhile Tsukushi is out searching for Susumu since it is so late and eventually finds him with Tsukasa, she yells at Tsukasa telling him that he's causing problems in her life and suddenly he confesses to her saying that he wants to date her again. She runs off and back at home Susumu tells her that she should at least inform Rui about she and Tsukasa since he deserves to know. Tsukushi tries phoning Rui but hangs up because she was afraid and didnt know what to say, after hearing her hang up the phone Rui gets into his car and drives to her place. Soon after Nishida, the company secretary, finally reveals the real reason for Tsukasa's change of behavior which leaves Tsukushi confused. After her talk with Nishida, Tsukushi sees Rui waiting outside her house to talk to her. He eventually leaves and a little afterwards Tsukasa ends up in Tsukushi's room since Susumu wants to use his room to study and the two end up in a fight which results huge damage to Tsukushi's room. She ends up living in the Domyouji mansion and working as a maid thanks to Tsubaki's help and she befriends Tama, an old housekeeper of the Domyouji clan while Susumu goes to stay with her parents. Shigeru eventually breaks off the engagement to Tsukasa. This results in his disinheritance and further worsens the crisis faced by the Domyouji World Finance Group. In an effort to save him and the employees of the company, Makino breaks up with him and follows her family to a fishing village to start a new life. Tsukasa goes after her, however. There, he gets into an accident after saving Susumu, Makino's younger brother, and develops amnesia. Her attempts at helping him revive his memories are thwarted by Umi, a patient in the same hospital where Domyouji had been admitted due to Umi liking Tsukasa.
After saving Makino from being frozen to death in a blizzard, Domyouji finally remembers her as the "first girl he has ever fallen in love with" as the circumstances were similar to their disastrous first date in season 1. He then proposes to her after her prom, with their friends and the rest of the Eitoku students cheering them on. The series ends with Tsukushi and Tsukasa meeting up for their date at Yebisu Garden place, this time as an engaged couple.
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ese television drama series
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, broadcast on TBS
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in 2007
2007 Japanese television dramas
←2006 - 2007 - 2008→This is a list of Japanese television dramas often called doramas by fans.-2007 winter season:SeriesSpecials...
. It is the sequel to 2005 Hana Yori Dango
Hana Yori Dango (TV series)
Hana Yori Dango is a Japanese television drama series, broadcast on TBS in 2005. It is based on Japanese shōjo manga series, , written by Yoko Kamio. The series is the third television adaptation of the manga following Meteor Garden and its sequel Meteor Garden II in Taiwan. It also resulted in...
TV series, based on Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
shōjo manga
Manga
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series, , written by Yoko Kamio
Yoko Kamio
is a Japanese manga artist and writer. She is most famous for , for which she received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1996. Her work has been translated and distributed in Asia, Europe, and North America.-Biography:...
, and followed by movie adaptation Hana Yori Dango Final
Hana Yori Dango Final
Hana Yori Dango Final is a 2008 Japanese film, directed by Yasuharu Ishii, and starring Mao Inoue and Jun Matsumoto. The film is the last chapter of the Hana Yori Dango trilogy in Japan, based on Japanese shōjo manga series, , written by Yoko Kamio....
.
Synopsis
Hana Yori Dango returns for a second season, picking up a year after Domyouji left for New York. Tsukushi follows Tsukasa to New York to confront him about his behavior and the reason behind his shocking decision to give her a red tag for the second time. There, she gets lost and becomes prey to thieves and bad men. Suddenly a flashback takes us one month before she Tsukushi left for New York. She mentions that F4 had graduated and during their ceremony they donated a lounge to the cafeteria called the F4 lounge so that they could revisit the school. Later on Tsukushi mentions that she and Yuki are attending their junior high reunion. Once there she meets Jun Pei a student who is attending the same school as her and little did she know who is also in the same grade as her! Once she is back at school she meets Jun Pei but is unable to recognize him as he is wearing glasses and looks very nerdy. She and Jun Pei become friends quickly and soon after she finds out that Jun Pei is a model in disguise when he takes her to his work studio! He convinces her to take a photo with him telling her it wont be published but then does get published anyways. Soon after Tsukushi is served a red tag and finds out that Tsukasa had told one of the students to give it to her for old times sake. She is then challenged but everyone and while she struggles to figh Jun Pei comes to her rescue. Later when Tsukushi speaks with Rui he tells her she should go to New York and he will pay but she refuses and when she goes home that evening she finds out that her dad had won a ticket to New York for 3 days. She takes the ticket and we are brought back to the present where she becomes prey to thieves and suddenly Rui arrives and saves her in the nick of time and Soujiro and Akira arrive after. Tsukushi finds Tsukasa and speaks with him and she realizes that since he left Japan, he has indeed changed. Upset with his cold attitude, Tsukushi, together with the F3, returns to Japan.Upon returning to Japan Tsukushi is tortured at school because of the red tag but once again Jun Pei comes to her rescue and in the process reveals his identity as Jun the famous model. Jun tells Tsukushi that he will protect her but then when he leaves he tells his men to take her away and soon Tsukushi finds out that Jun is the bad guy trying to get ahold of Tsukasa in order to get revenge for his friend who was beaten up severely by Tsukasa. During Jun's story Tsukushi manages to escape and is found by Tsukasa's sister Tsubaki who sends her men after Jun Pei. Later Tsukushi confesses to Tsubaki that she still loves Tsukasa but is unsure of what to do to get back with him since he's changed too much.
After a while Tsukushi is invited to Tsukasa's birthday party by his mother Kaede. Tsukushi decides to make him a present similar to the one she gave him when he left for New York and dresses up in a fancy dress which Tsubaki had bought for her. During her son's birthday party Kaede announces Tsukasa's engagement to Okawahara Shigeru, the only daughter of a Japanese oil magnate. After Kaede makes her announcement she embarrasses Tsukushi by calling her up on stage to play the piano which she is unable to do. She congratulates Tsukasa and runs out followed by him and he confronts her about the engagement telling her that she should not have come since it was all part of Kaede's plans. Tsukushi says it doesn't matter since they are no longer in a relationship and before she can complete what she was saying Kaede arrives and agrees with what Tsukushi had said followed by Shigeru who is shocked about the earlier events. Tsukasa then yells at his mother and tries to leave with Tsukushi but instead grabs Shigeru's arm and leaves with her. To make things complicated, Shigeru falls in love with Tsukasa after he grabs her arm and they get into a fight and befriends Tsukushi and decides to make her, her love adviser and confidante. Tsukushi, in an effort to deal with the painful events regarding her past love, immerses herself in her studies to get into law school with the help of Rui. As they grow closer, Rui realizes his true feelings for her. During this time Tsukushi finds out that her family is having money issues and she decides to take a second job in order to help her family with expenses but she finds it too exhausting and collapses during work. She is taken to the hospital and while Tsukasa is at a dinner with Shigeru and her family Nishida informs him about Tsukushi and he rushes off to see her. Just before Tsukasa enters Tsukushi's room he hears Rui's voice and leaves confused about why Rui is there. Later when Tsukushi wakes up she see's Rui realizing that he had stayed the night and when he awakes he kisses her and leaves. When Tsukushi finally gets discharged from the hospital and goes home she finds out that her father was fired and left with her mother to go to a nearby village to become a fisherman in order to earn income. Tsukushi starts packing her belongings and is notified by Yuki that she knows someone in her tea class who might have a place for her and her brother to stay at. They start living in an old building and find out that Tsukasa is living next to them since he had purchased the building and when Tsukushi and Tsukasa have a fight which results in him landing on top of her Shigeru suddenly arrives, sees them and runs out of the building.
Tsukushi tries to run after her but Tsukasa stops her telling her "not to go," she then tells him to leave and he does so. Then Tsukushi's brother Susumu askes Tsukasa for help on how to confess to a girl he met when he took his enterance exam. Tsukasa agrees and gets the rest of F4 to help. Unfortunately when Susumu confesses to to girl he likes, she refuses and he is heart broken. Meanwhile Tsukushi is out searching for Susumu since it is so late and eventually finds him with Tsukasa, she yells at Tsukasa telling him that he's causing problems in her life and suddenly he confesses to her saying that he wants to date her again. She runs off and back at home Susumu tells her that she should at least inform Rui about she and Tsukasa since he deserves to know. Tsukushi tries phoning Rui but hangs up because she was afraid and didnt know what to say, after hearing her hang up the phone Rui gets into his car and drives to her place. Soon after Nishida, the company secretary, finally reveals the real reason for Tsukasa's change of behavior which leaves Tsukushi confused. After her talk with Nishida, Tsukushi sees Rui waiting outside her house to talk to her. He eventually leaves and a little afterwards Tsukasa ends up in Tsukushi's room since Susumu wants to use his room to study and the two end up in a fight which results huge damage to Tsukushi's room. She ends up living in the Domyouji mansion and working as a maid thanks to Tsubaki's help and she befriends Tama, an old housekeeper of the Domyouji clan while Susumu goes to stay with her parents. Shigeru eventually breaks off the engagement to Tsukasa. This results in his disinheritance and further worsens the crisis faced by the Domyouji World Finance Group. In an effort to save him and the employees of the company, Makino breaks up with him and follows her family to a fishing village to start a new life. Tsukasa goes after her, however. There, he gets into an accident after saving Susumu, Makino's younger brother, and develops amnesia. Her attempts at helping him revive his memories are thwarted by Umi, a patient in the same hospital where Domyouji had been admitted due to Umi liking Tsukasa.
After saving Makino from being frozen to death in a blizzard, Domyouji finally remembers her as the "first girl he has ever fallen in love with" as the circumstances were similar to their disastrous first date in season 1. He then proposes to her after her prom, with their friends and the rest of the Eitoku students cheering them on. The series ends with Tsukushi and Tsukasa meeting up for their date at Yebisu Garden place, this time as an engaged couple.
Main Cast
- Mao InoueMao Inoueis a Japanese actress. She debuted as a U-15 idol in 1999. She is best known to Japanese television drama audiences as in and Makino Tsukushi in the Hana Yori Dango series, in which she won Best Actress in the 47th Television Drama Academy Awards and received a newcomer award at the 16th Hashida...
as Makino Tsukushi (牧野 つくし) - Jun MatsumotoJun Matsumoto, often called by the portmanteau nickname , is a Japanese idol, singer, actor and radio host. He is a member of Japanese boy band Arashi and is best known to Japanese television drama audiences for his portrayal as Tsukasa Dōmyōji in the Hana Yori Dango series, in which he won GQ Japan's Man Of...
as Domyoji Tsukasa (道明寺 司) - Shun OguriShun Oguriis a Japanese actor, director and voice actor.-Career:Born to a theater director father, Tetsuya Oguri, and having an actor brother, Ryo Oguri, Shun Oguri started his acting career quite early in his life...
as Hanazawa Rui (花沢 類) - Shota MatsudaShota Matsudais a Japanese actor. His parents are the actors Yusaku Matsuda and Miyuki Matsuda, his older brother is the actor Ryuhei Matsuda, and his aunt is the actress Mami Kumagai. Matsuda is 181 cm tall. His father, Yusaku Matsuda was half-Korean, thus Shota and Ryuhei are a quarter Korean.Matsuda has...
as Nishikado Sojiro (西門 総二郎) - Tsuyoshi AbeTsuyoshi Abeis a Chinese Japanese actor in Japan. Of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent , he is able to speak both Mandarin and Japanese fluently....
as Mimasaka Akira (美作 あきら)
Supporting Cast
- Aki Nishihara as Yuuki Matsuoka (松岡 優紀)
- Natsuki KatoNatsuki Katois a Japanese actress and former fashion model, regularly appearing on television in various roles.-Career:After she was spotted and recruited with 1998's television commercial appearance by a current entertainment production, she made her debut in 1999....
as Okawahara Shigeru (大河 原滋) - Mayumi Sada as Shizuka Todo (藤堂 静)
- Megumi Sato as Sakurako Sanjo (三条 桜子)
- Nanako MatsushimaNanako Matsushimais a Japanese actress and model. She is known outside Japan for her role in the horror film Ring. She was also a main character in A Story of Love, where she starred next to Hiroyuki Sanada, who also played Ryuji Takayama in Ring....
as Tsubaki Domyoji (道明寺 椿) - Mariko Kaga as Kaede Domyoji (道明寺 楓)
- Ito David as Nishida
- Takako Kato as Sachiyo Sengoku (Okami-San)(千石 幸代)
- Susumu Kobayashi as Haruo Makino (牧野 晴男)
- Mako IshinoMako IshinoMako Ishino is a Japanese singer and actress. She is affiliated with From First Production Co., Ltd.-Albums:* Truth * Mako Revival...
as Chieko Makino (牧野 千恵子) - Satoshi Tomiura as Susumu Makino (牧野 進)
Awards and nominations
52nd Television Drama Academy Awards- Winner: Best Drama - Hana Yori Dango Returns
External links
- Official TV Drama Website from TBS