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It Started With A Kiss



Details
Title: E Zuo Ju Zhi Wen
English Title: It Started With A Kiss
Genre: Romance / Comedy
Broadcast network: CTV / GTV
Related shows: Itazura na Kiss
Season 1

Main CastEpisodes: TV: 20, DVD: 30
Broadcast period: 2005 Sep 25 - 2006 Feb 12
Air time: Sundays 22:00 to 23:30
Opening theme song: Say U Love Me by Jason and Lara
Ending theme song: E Zuo Ju by Wan Lan Yin
Insert songs: See It Started with a Kiss OST

Synopsis
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?

Cast
Ariel Lin as Yuan Xiang Qin
Joe Cheng as Jiang Zhi Shu
Jiro Wang as Jin Yuan Feng
Tiffany Xu as Pei Zi Yu
Cyndi Chaw as Ah Li's wife / Jiang Zhao Zi
Zhang Yong Zheng as Jiang Wan Li
Tang Tsung Sheng as Yuan You Cai
Zhang Bo Han as Jiang Yu Shu
Liu Rong Jia as Liu Ya Nong
Yang Pei Ting as Lin Chun Mei
Jason as Wang Hao Qian
Bianca Bai as Bai Hua Lan
Qian De Men as Director Bai
Lai Zhi Wei as Du Jian Zhong
Wu Wen Hong as Ah Hong (Ah Jin's friend)
Wang Di Jun as Zhang Lang (Ah Jin's friend)
Chen Bo Zheng as Kong Ling Yang (High School Principal)
Yao Cai Ying as Wen Zhen Guan
Hong Jiao Nang as Yang Da Xin / Xiang Qin's teacher
Lee Shiau Shiang as Chang Wu Ren
Aaron Yan as Chun Mei's boyfriend, Ah Bu
Yvonne Yao as Zhi Shu's teacher
Kitamura Toyoharu

Production Credits
Producers: Chen Zhi Han / Jerry Feng / Qi Yang Lin / Wang Xin Gui
Director: Qu You Ning
Screenwriter: Qi Yang Lin

Trivia
The series was based on the Japanese shoujo manga "Itazura na kiss" (Mischievous kiss) by Tada Kaoru. The are 23 volumes of the manga. There is no ending for the manga; the series was still running in Margaret when the author passed away at the age of 38 from a brain aneurysm.
The filming of It Started with a Kiss lasted one entire year. Some scenes were filmed in different seasons, which resulted in many goofs.
The director, Qu You Ning, made two cameos in the drama: One as the fat, middle age woman on a bus who accuses Ah Jin was harassing of her and another as Zhi Shu's boyfriend in Xiang Qin's imagination (birthday gift giving scene).
The sequel is set to air in November 2007 due to the show's high ratings (60.1%, third most popular drama in the country) in Taiwan.