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Idol Drama - Prince Turns to Frog (Wang Tze Pien Ching Wa / 王子變青蛙)

This so-called idol drama (a Taiwanese term, which is a soap opera starred by hunks and hot chicks. Those actors and actresses are so handsome and beautiful that people think they're just idols.) broke a new record of viewing rate in Taiwan in 2005. It inspired me to introduce excellent Taiwanese entertain ment to the world. This is my first work. I hope this blog will get a lot of support from different countries whose residents are into Taiwanese entertainment industry. Please join me and discuss with everyone!!

Story of Drama -
A girl viewing marrying a rich person as her ultimate goal of life.
A cruel prince weighing value of life with career achievement.
An accident creates the crossing of the prince and the girl in their lives.
Losing memory, the prince transforms to a troublesome frog.
The girl thinks she finds a person smuggling from nowhere.
Treating him as a slave, hitting him, taking advantage of him in every single possible ways.
But doesn't know
The one next to her is whom she's been dreamed of marry, super rich man.
A story of love and fairy tale, Prince Turns to Frog

A fairy tale reversing before, Prince Turns to Frog...

Beginning of fairy tale
Tien-Yu desires the fairy tale, Frog Prince, for a touching feeling when facing a prince; however, she also thinks that it would be extremely disgusting to kiss a frog even though she just needs to do that in her dream...... Having influenced by the stepmother, Chin-Chih, since she was little, and , with the liability from the father who's passed away, Tien-Yu realized very early the importance of money. "Maintaining a family needs money-saving, making money needs dirty tricks." At this moment, nonetheless, the most important thing for Tien-Yu is attending the concert of her biological mother who's dead and just got her twisted reputation back. She needs to wear the most luxurious dress of the town. This dress is shown in the window of the Sze Meng Chiao clothes store, but Tien-Yu cannot afford it. Chun-Hao is the new general manager of the Senwell hotel corporate. The ability brought along with the birth enables Chun-Hao make assertive decisions. He thinks Yun-Hsi, an orphan growing up in his family, would be his wife. As for Tze-Chien, who grew up with Chun-Hao and Yun-Hsi, Chun-Hao doesn't like his attitude towards work. He is too easy-going and cares about nothing. Take Shun-Ming Tang, the boss of the Kuan Mei Hotel, for example, Chun-Hao hoped Tze-Chien to deal with that hotel, not to make Shun-Ming Tang ruin their hotel's fame so that he can get his own hotel and the land back. Shun-Ming Tang ended up to intend to jump down from the top of their hotel after the negotiation with Tze-Chien. At last, Chun-Hao had to take good care of this suicide accident and even drive to the Kuan Mei fisher town later. Surprisingly, Yun-Hsi doesn't agree on the wedding with Chun-Hao. Simultaneously, Tze-Chien is silent, listening to Yun-Hsi releasing what's inside her mind. He realized that the resistance inside Yun-Hsi is just temporary. What she wants is that Chun-Hao could undertand her heart more. However, Tze-Chien is the one who truly understands her heart. He's never owned up to this. He wants to suppress it forever but also hopes Yun-Hsi will accept him sometime......

Bumping into 100% cruel prince
In order to get the bounty from the Culture Ritual to buy the most beautiful dress in the Sze Meng Chiao, Tien-Yu does all she can do, dragging Cheng-Che, carrying a divine chair on the shoulders into the ocean; however, Heaven doesn't grant her wish. Her leg is jerking! Can't move! She is about to be drowned to death! Yesterday, while Chun-Hao was proposing to Yun-Hsi on a hot ballon, the ring dropped into the ocean by accident. He is on a speedboat alone seeing someone need a favor. Of course, he jumps into the ocean to save someone without the second thought. He didn't expect the person he saves is Tien-Yu. She is wearing the ring he lost. Tien-Yu found this ring on the beach. She thought it's just a fake ring made of glass. She's wearing it for fun. After wearing, she forgets to take it off her finger. While the two people are disputing fro the ring, both of them fall down to the ocean. Seeing Tien-Yu unconscious in the sea water, Chun-Hao has no way but saves her again. Unexpectedly, Tien-Yu takes the CPR as a real kiss. She doesn't know the identity of Chun-Hao. She doesn't know he is the prince of whom she's been dreaming, not to mention the name of Jiun-Hao. She only knows that the guy standing right in front of her is a lecher who just stole her first kiss.

Miracle of concert AND tragedy of engagement party
Chun-Hao faces the inquiry about the Kuan Mei case from the vice general manager, Ming-Han Chang, as soon as he gets back to the hotel. But he always has a good way with this kind of stuff. Moreover, the following day is his engagement day with Yun-Hsi. He appears forgiving for ridiculous argument with Ming-Han Chang. Right now, the engagement party of Senwell's general manager is what people are busy with. Tze-Chien taking charge of public relations and marketing also takes a lot of responsibility for this party. But his good friend, Hua-Shun Tung, doesn't think so. Hua-Shun Tung was a gangster. He was encouraged by Tze-Chien and decided to restart his life. He takes Tze-Chien as his brother. He is making a plan under the table. At night of the day, Yun-Hsi finds an invitation card to a concert in Chun-Hao's car. Reading the card, Chun-Hao realizes that it's true that Tien-Yu is really gonna attend a concert. After Yun-Hsi's recommendation, Chun-Hao has his personal assistant, Ta-Wei, take Tien-Yu to buy a dress suitable to a music concert. Before Chun-Hao left the Kuan Mei Hotel, Shun-Ming Tang pleased him to give him one more chance of time to pay the money back to the Senwell. The cold attitude of Chun-Hao drove him nuts, and now he wants to hurt Chun-Hao. However, Shun-Ming Tang is not the person who hurts Chun-Hao. It's a taxi, and the driver is nobody but Hua-Shun Tung. Shun-Ming Tang sees someone drive Chun-Hao's body away, but, after struggling a while, he decides not to say anything and goes back to the Kuan Mei fisher town. The concert successfully ends. Tien-Yu doesn't bring the medal given for her mother back home; instead, she appreciates her stepmother, Chin-Chih, in front of the people. This behavior touches Chin-Chih a lot when she hears the appreciation on the phone, so she drives their pick-up truck, takes Cheng-Che, and goes to pick Tien-Yu up back home from the concert. Without expectation of this, Tien-Yu is very amazed and delighted. She drives the car with Chin-Chih and Cheng-Che. All of a sudden, she bumps Chun-Hao running out from a road side. Earlier, after Hua-Shun Tung bumped him, he was put in the back of the taxi. After awakening, he fought with Hua-Shun Tung in the taxi. The taxi hit the fence and dropped into the ocean. Thought of being dead, Jiun-Hao is still alive. Going back to the coast, waving to the car for help, he is bumped by Tian-Yu now.

A story of love and fairy tale is starting...

(Translated from TTV. Without permission, do not copy all the content above.)

Broadcast Date -
Taiwan: 06/05/2005 - 10/16/2005 (20 episodes), 9:30 - 11:00pm, Sundays, on TTV
Singapore: 09/15/2005, 7:30pm, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, on U Channel
China: 09/26/2005 on CETV
Hong Kong: 02/12/2006 -, 10:00pm, on TVB.

Cast -
Director: Jiun-Jie Liu, Ming-Chang Chen
Producer: Yu-Shan Huang
Screenplay: Tsai-Jiuan Lo

Shan, Chun-Hao: Ming Dao ( a member of 183 Club)
Yeh, Tien-Yu: Chiao-En Chen (a member of 7 Flowers)
Hsu, Tze-Chien: Shao-Wei Wang (a member of 183 Club and 5566)
Fan, Yun-Hsi : Hung-Chiao Chao (a member of 7 Flowers)
Chang, Ming-Han: Gino (a member of K One)
Chen, Chin-Chih: Chuan Chen
Yeh, Cheng-Che: Anthony
Lee, Ta-Wei: Yu-Jung Huang (a member of 183 Club)
Tang, Shun-Ming: Shun Chao
Tung, Hua-Shun: Lung-Chieh Chiu
Su, Li-Hsin: Li-Hsin Su
Shan, Yao-Jung (Chun-Hao's Dad): Chung-Yueh Yun
Chiang, Tsai-Yueh (Chun-Hao's Mom): Tai-Ling Lee
Lee, Tung-Luo (police officer): Po-Jen Cheng
Chef: Wei-Hsun Na
A-Sheng: Pei-Wei Hu
Wu, Yueh-Chiao & Feng-Chiao: Man-Yin Lu
Gary: Hao Yang

Official Website -
1. SETTV: http://www.settv.com.tw/metro/m095/
2. TTV: http://www.ttv.com.tw/drama/2005/wawawa/index.htm

Related Newspaper Coverng -
1. "On July 22, 'Prince Turns to Frog' broke the record of 'Meteor Garden' with the average rating 7.09 and the highest rating 8.05." - YNTV 08/25/2005
2. "The final episode of 'Prince Turns to Frog' has a 6.93 viewing rate, occupies 25.82% of the market, equals to 3.02 million people watching, one fourth of the Taiwanese watching." - Medianews On Line 10/18/2005
3. "'Prince' built a new record of viewing rate, 11.35, among students on July 7. It also broke the record of the viewing rate on single episode, 6.97, on September 4." - TaipeiToday 10/19/2005
4. "Now, hundreds of people visit the 'Money Coming (Chien Lai Yeh)' grocery store in Pei Men on holidays." - Liberty Times 11/07/2005
5. "'Prince Turns to Frog' is No. 2 in the viewing rate of all the dramas in 2005 annual ranking. Annually average rating is 5.84." - Apple Daily 12/28/2005
6. "'Prince Turns to Frog' used to be No. 1 in viewing rates nationwide for one month straight. Its soundtrack was also sold very well." - ETtoday 01/03/2006
7. "What is the No. 1 in the history of idol dramas in Taiwan? 'Meteor Garden?' No! It's 'Prince Turns to Frog.' Its rating is more than 8! The postings about this drama on the Internet are more than 200,000! Hong Kong is gonna play it this year. People in China are asking to watch it soon, too." - Chiao En Fanclub (http://tw.club.yahoo.com/clubs/jn-1979-4-4/) 01/13/2006
8. "The idol drama which used to build several new records, 'Prince Turns to Frog,' now is on Hong Kong TV and causes a big sensation in Hong Kong. 'Prince Turns to Frog' even occupied Number One in the HK Yahoo's search chart." - MOL 02/14/2006

posted by TwE @ 12:29 PM