Everyone says you should always take time to stop and smell the roses but we think taking the time to watch this collection of films and dramas works just as well! Full of pretty, pretty FLOWER BOYS, this lovely compilation is sure to make your day just a little bit brighter!

Flower Boys

Kim Tan (Lee Min Ho)’s wealthy parents have been grooming him to take over the lucrative family business, the Empire Group, since he was just a young boy. His jealous older half-brother Kim Won (Choi Jin Hyuk) – already a successful executive at the firm – is a constant thorn in Tan’s side. Tan, meanwhile, is engaged to an heiress, Rachel Ryu (Kim Ji Won), the scion of a powerful, hotel-owning family. But while he is studying in the United States, Tan meets and falls for Cha Eun Sang (Park Shin Hye), unaware that she is the daughter of his family’s housekeeper. As super-rich families hatch plans for their children’s future, could love put an end to their ambitious schemes? This 2013 South Korean drama series was directed by Kang Shin Hyo and Boo Sung Chul.

Heirs

The Heirs Team

TV Asahi

The year is 1863, and in Kyoto, Japan, Kyujuro Fukakusa (Tomoya Oku) lives a modest life working with his father at a small teahouse. One fateful night, they grant refuge to a desperate samurai but a rival samurai soon bursts into the teahouse, killing Kyujuro’s father in the process. Devastated, Kyujuro vows to avenge his father’s death by joining a samurai training academy to master the art of the sword. However, gaining access to the academy is a formidable challenge, as his fellow applicants are experienced warriors. Among them is Daisaku Kamagiri (Kentaro Maeda), the most skilled and fearsome swordsman. Determined to succeed and seek revenge, Kyujuro faces relentless trials and fierce rivals. Will he rise to the challenge and avenge his father's death? This 2024 Japanese drama series was based on a manga series by Osamu Tezuka and was directed by Hayato Kawai.

Shinsengumi : With You I Bloom

🍵 Tea & Swords ⚔️

Standards have been slipping at the elite Eitoku Academy. A student group named Correct 5 decides to act, with Haruto Kaguragi (Hirano Sho) taking the helm. The group’s aim: Identify deadbeat students and force them out of school! This rings the alarm bells for Oto Edogawa (Sugisaki Hana), a student who’s trying to hide the fact that her family is in dire financial straits. She is also trying to hide her engagement to her fiancé Tenma Hase (Taishi Nakagawa), a boy from a rival school. But problems begin to emerge for all involved when Oto Edogawa discovers an embarrassing secret about the Correct 5 kingpin! This drama is the sequel to the hit series “Boys Over Flowers.” This 2018 Japanese drama series was based on a manga series by Yoko Kamio and directed by Yasuharu Ishii.

BOYS OVER FLOWERS Season 2 (2018)

From F4 to C5 It's a Snap 💕

Tsukushi Makino (Mao Inoue), a quiet student at the elite Eitoku Academy, clashes with Tsukasa Domyouji (Jun Matsumoto), a key member of the “Flower Four” or “F4” gang, made up of devilishly handsome bullies sons of some of Japan’s richest businesspeople. The F4 orchestrates bullying campaigns aimed at forcing students they don’t like out of the academy. However, Tsukushi refuses to be pushed around and berates Tsukasa. This has unexpected consequences, leading both Tsukasa and his fellow F4 member Rui Hanazawa (Shun Oguri) to fall for her. Will love save the day – and might romance help teach F4 the error of its ways? This 2005 Japanese drama series was based on a hit manga series by Yoko Kamio and was directed by Yasuharu Ishii.

BOYS OVER FLOWERS

🍡 A Bouquet of Dango 🍡 Team

It’s been a year since Domyouji Tsukasa (Jun Matsumoto) left for New York but Makino Tsukushi (Mao Inoue) refuses to accept his reasons for going alone. Following him to New York, Makino is convinced she’ll be able to find Domyouji and make him explain himself, but her adventures in New York turn out to be much different than those she had planned. Despite the difficulties she has upon arrival, Makino eventually has the chance to confront Domyouji, but all of her hopes of reconciliation are crushed by his cold demeanor.

Convinced Domyouji has changed completely, Makino returns to Japan heartbroken. Determined to erase all thoughts of and lingering feelings for Domyouji away completely, Makino focuses on her studies but no matter how hard she tries, fate seems determined to bring them back together in some of the cruelest ways possible. Unable to escape her seemingly unfortunate fate, Makino turns to Rui Hanazawa (Shun Oguri) for strength and comfort, a fact that doesn’t go unnoticed by Domyouji. Jealous of Rui and Makino’s growing relationship, Domyouji finds himself torn between his feelings for Makino and the duty he has to fulfill for the sake of his family.

Caught in a complicated web of broken hearts and new relationships, it seems as if Domyouji and Makino’s time together has truly ended. But fate, it would seem, hasn’t finished with them yet. Brought together one last time, will Makino and Domyouji finally have a chance to live happily ever after?

A sequel to the 2005 hit series, “BOYS OVER FLOWERS”based on the manga of the same name by Yoko Kamio, “BOYS OVER FLOWERS 2 (returns) is a 2007 Japanese drama directed by Ishii Yasuharu.

BOYS OVER FLOWERS 2 (returns)

Again 🍡 A Bouquet of Dango 🍡

KBS2

Working-class highschooler Jan Di (Ku Hye Sun) secures a scholarship at the prestigious Shin Hwa High School. Shin Hwa is attended by elites, most infamously the F4 — the four richest boys in school. Not one to stir up trouble, Jan Di keeps to herself... until her best friend accidentally drops ice cream on F4 leader Goo Joon Pyo (Lee Min Ho). After Jan Di stands up for her friend, her anonymity goes out the window and the F4 won't leave her alone. However, as Jan Di learns more about the F4, she realizes that there's more than meets the eye... and it seems Joon Pyo feels the same way. Will this unlikely duo find romance? Released in 2009 and based on the Japanese manga of the same name, this drama is a worldwide phenomenon and a fan-favorite classic. It was directed by the late Jeon Ki Sang and Lee Min Woo.

Boys Over Flowers

🌸The Fabulous Four Team🌸

GMM 25

Average high school student Gorya (Tu Tontawan Tantivejakul) finds her life taking an unbelievable turn when she’s accepted into one of the most prestigious high schools in the country. But after meeting the school’s most notorious group of seniors, the F4: Thyme (Bright Vachirawit Chivaaree), Ren (Dew Jirawat Sutivanichsak), Kavin (Win Metawin Opas-iamkajorn), and MJ (Nani Hirunkit Changkham), Gorya isn’t convinced her luck has changed for the better. Catching the attention of the group’s leader, Thyme, Gorya’s life gets infinitely more complicated. With Thyme determined to win her heart, will Gorya’s life ever be the same again? Adapted from the Japanese manga series “Hana Yori Dango” by Yoko Kamio, this is a 2021 Thai romance drama directed by Patha Thongpan.

F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers

There was a time when Asuka Nakamachi (Tsubasa Honda) had everything in life she ever wanted. Teaching at a local high school, Asuka was thrilled to have finally made her lifelong dream of becoming a teacher come true. But now, at the age of thirty, Askua’s dreams have crumbled around her.

After suffering a gutting failure, Asuka was forced to give up her dreams and set aside her career as a teacher. Withdrawing from the world around her, Asuka found herself wandering through her days, aimless and alone. Without any real purpose to her life, Asuka eventually wanders her way into a job working as a live-in housemother for a dormitory in which a struggling boy band resides. Unfamiliar with the group, Asuka is shocked to find that one of her former students, Dan Sagami (Fumiya Takahashi), is the group’s leader.

As Dan’s former teacher, Asuka was the one who used to encourage him to pursue his dreams. Now Asuka finds their roles have reversed as she begins to find inspiration in Dan’s leadership and his undying passion to make his dreams come true. Bolstered by this new wave of inspiration, can Asuka find the strength to come to terms with her past mistakes and start to take those first tentative steps toward a brighter future?

A delightfully adorable tale, “I Will Be Your Bloom” is a 2022 Japanese romantic comedy drama directed by Toshio Tsuboi and Naoki Kato.

I Will Be Your Bloom

✧8loomies Team✧					

Past events at Seoyeon High School have a repercussion on a group of students preparing to graduate six years later. A tragic romance that ended in sadness when a girl tried and failed to stop a young man from taking a fatal decision. Now, the paths of teenagers “from the past” appear destined to cross with those of three present-day students.

The group comprises the teenagers “from the past,” including Lee Ha Min (Seo Ji Hoon), who, to those who do not know him well, seems to be full of joy and brightness. But in his deepest thoughts, darkness stalks him constantly. There is also Han So Mang (So Ju Yeon), a warm-hearted but shy girl who wants to help others. In the present, Lee Jae Min (Kim Min Kyu) is a popular and tender student who also hides sadness and a past tinged with pain. There is also the studious and kind Yoon Bo Mi (Kang Hye Won) is a sweet, model student – as well as her devoted best friend Kang Sun Hee (Oh Yoo Jin). Rounding out the number is the more temperamental gamer Choi Jin Young (Yoon Hyun Soo) whose thorny attitude also hides a tender side. What does life – and love – have in store for this group of students as they prepare to become adults?

This drama was based on a web-based cartoon of the same name, which was authored by Hongduck and illustrated by Nemone.

“Seasons of Blossom” is a 2022 South Korean drama series that was directed by Wang Hye Ryung.

Seasons of Blossom

🌸The season of flowers🌸

iQIYI

It is the mid-1920s, and a resourceful young police officer named Qiao Chu Sheng (Zhang Yun Long) is on the trail of a brutal but devious killer.

Realizing that the police force will need some extra help with this difficult case, he decides to form an elite crime-busting detective team.

He reaches out to a young man who has recently returned from studying in Great Britain, Yu Gong Zi (Hu Yi Tian). Qiao Chu Sheng has learned that Yu Gong Zi has remarkable powers of deduction and a brilliant mind – and believes he can help crack this difficult case.

To round off the team, he enlists the help of Bai You Ning (Xiao Yan), a focused young female reporter for a daily newspaper. A free-thinking, independent young woman, she has a strong sense of justice – and pledges to help catch the killer.

Can the trio get to the bottom of the murder case in time to restore order – and bring the dastardly criminal to justice?

“My Roommate Is a Detective” is a 2020 Chinese drama series directed by Zhang Wei Ke.

My Roommate is a Detective

🕵Team 7️⃣ - Roommates🕵🏼‍♂️

KBS02

We all once have read about Hwarang and heard about a few famous historical Hwarangs. However, not one of us exactly knows what or who they were, as all myths do. How could beautiful-looking young men have been able to be the leaders of Silla, the millenary kingdom that united the ancient Korean Three Kingdoms? What kind of a rite of passage did they go through in order to become the spirit of Silla? Now, we give full scope to our imagination to answer these questions, which were never written in history. This is a story of the friendship and love of Hwarang and a story of the youth struggling to make the world a better place. Above all, this is a whole new myth.

Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth

After announcing their engagement to the world, Tsukasa Domyoji (Jun Matsumoto) and Tsukushi Makino (Mao Inoue) are called to formally meet with their parents. During the meeting with Tsukasa’s parents, his mother presents Tsukasa with a beautiful tiara which is said to grant endless love to the owner and her partner. Touched by the gift, Tsukasa plans to cherish it forever but almost immediately after receiving it, the tiara is stolen.

Determined to find the thief and retrieve the tiara, Tsukasa and Tsukushi follow a trail of clues which leads them to a casino in Las Vegas. Realizing their odds of catching the thief on their own are slim, Tsukasa calls in the rest of the F4 to help. Arriving at the casino, Rui Hanazawa (Shun Oguri), Sojiro Nishikado (Shota Matsuda), and Akira Mimasaka (Tsuyoshi Abe) try to help in recovering the tiara but their arrival comes too late. Learning the tiara is to be sold on the black market in Hong Kong, the reunited friends head to Hong Kong but their plans to retrieve the tiara are thwarted once again.

Chasing the tiara from one side of the world to the other, Tsukasa, Tsukushi, and their friends are determined to get it back, but find that doing so is much easier said than done. With their eternal happiness on the line, will Tsukasa and Tsukushi be able to retrieve the tiara before the wedding or will their “happily ever after” be doomed before it even has a chance to start?

Based on the manga series of the same name by Yoko Kamio and the last of the “Boys Over Flowers” live-action trilogy, “BOYS OVER FLOWERS the movie” is a 2008 Japanese romance film directed by Yasuharu Ishii.

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