Bull Fighting (TV series)

"Bull Fighting" redirects here. For the Spanish spectacle, see Bullfighting.

Bull Fighting
Promotional poster for Bull Fighting
Also known as	鬥牛·要不要 Dou Niu, Yao Bu Yao Hooping Dulcinea
Genre	Romantic comedy
Format	Television series
Directed by	Liu Jun Jie
Starring	Mike He Hebe Tien Lee Wei
Opening theme	"鬥牛要不要" (Do you want a bull-fight) - Tank (Taiwanese singer)
Ending theme	"最近還好嗎" (How Are You Lately?) - S.H.E.
Country of origin	Republic of China, (Taiwan)
Language(s)	Mandarin
No. of episodes	17
Production
Executive producer(s)	Liao Jian Xing
Running time	60 mins
Broadcast
Original channel	Taiwan Television (TTV)
Original run	18 November 2007 (2007-11-18) – 9 March 2008 (2008-03-09)
Chronology
Preceded by	Ying Ye 3 Jia 1 (樱野3加1)
Followed by	Fated to Love You (命中注定我愛你)
External links
TTV homepage

Bull Fighting (Chinese: 鬥牛·要不要; pinyin: Dou Niu. Yao Bu Yao?; literally "Do you want a bull-fight") is a 2007 Taiwanese drama starring Mike He, Hebe Tien, and Lee Wei. The series was broadcast on free-to-air Taiwan Television (TTV) (台視) from 18 November 2007 to 9 March 2008 on Sunday at 22:00 and cable TV Sanlih E-Television (SET) (三立電視) from 24 November 2007 to 15 March 2008 on Saturday at 21:00.

Cast

• Mike He (賀軍翔) as Shen Ruo He 沈若赫
• Hebe Tien as Yi Sheng Xue 伊勝雪
• Lee Wei (李威) as Jin Zi Cong 金子聰
• Liang Zhe (亮哲) as Zhou Bi Shou 周必守
• Huang Pai Jun (黃柏鈞) as Xu Zhe Kai 徐哲凱
• Godfrey Gao (高以翔) as Tank 坦克
• Ding Chun Cheng (丁春誠) as Roma
• Cao Wei Xuan (曹維軒) as Mu Yu 木魚
• George Zhang (張兆志) as Run Yi 潤乙
• Zhang Li Ren (張力仁) as Ah Jia 阿嘉
• Jian Chang (檢場) as Yi Chuan Wu 伊全武
• Cyndi Chaw (趙詠華) as Gao Jie Mei 高潔美
• Ai Wei (艾偉) as Shen Guo Shen 沈國琛
• Tan Ai Zhen (譚艾珍) as Mrs. Shen 沈老夫人
• Xie Qi Wen (謝其文) as Sausage vendor 香腸伯
• Hu Kang Xing (胡康星) as Bi Xiao Xiu 畢小修
• Peggy Zheng (曾珮瑜) as Liang Yu Qin 梁羽親
• Lin Shou Jun (林秀君) as President He 賀總裁
• Wang De Sheng (王德生) as Butler Shi 石管家
• Ke Huan Ru (柯奐如) as He Qian Na 賀千那
• Chen Wei Han (陳威翰) as Jia Bao Bei 賈寶貝
• Wang Xin Yi (王心宜) as Mei Fei 梅妃
• Zhang Yong Zheng (張永正) as Uncle Louie
• Wang Juan (王琄) as Bo Luo Shen 菠蘿嬸
• Qian De Men (乾德門) as School doctor
• Zhu De Gang (朱德剛) as Guan Fu Lu 官福祿
• Judy Zhou (周定緯) as Michael
• Chen Han Dian (陳漢典) as 失業路人
• Lene Lai (賴琳恩) as 學校秘書

Synopsis

It started as a 3-on-3 basketball competition between two rival colleges; an annual event in which the winner would control the 13th Street basketball court for the following year. To everybody's surprise, the 9-year reigning champion, TRIO lost this year... and it was all because of one girl named Yi Sheng Xue. Now, this game has a new purpose.

TRIO is a famed group in the East Sun college known for their handsome, well-rounded and rich boys who also have talent in the game of basketball: Zhou Bi Shou, Xu Zhe Kai, and the leader, Shen Ruo He. All three are gorgeous and proud, and been there for each other since they were little. Confident, they know that they will win against the other college, and score the spot to place their team flag on.

Yi Sheng Xue (Hebe Tien) is a stubborn but naive daughter of a former triad leader, Wu Ye. She went to a temple to wish TRIO good luck during the infamous 13th street basketball game. As a young girl, she had been chased by hostile gang members, and had run frantically to the basketball court in desperation to avoid conflict. Coincidentally the very first 13th street basketball game was taking place. The members, seeing a young girl being persecuted, helped drive the gang members away, leading Sheng Xue into safety. Sheng Xue now takes the game seriously and watches it every year, cheering on the East Sun college.

This year, TRIO, representing East Sun, lost. Shen Ruo He (Mike He) had almost hit Sheng Xue with his car earlier-causing mayhem amongst Sheng Xue's many bodyguards, especially Jin Zi Cong (Lee Wei). Secretly cutting a hole open in Ruo He's bag and poking a hole into his tire, Jin Zi Cong's bodyguard gang stole off, and an unaware Sheng Xue never knew about the two acts that her lifelong friends had done. After that, Sheng Xue chased after Ruo He, wanting him to feel the pain that she was feeling after losing to 9 years of famed wins during the 13th Street Basketball Tournament. She was in such disappointment that she transferred from her girl's college over to East Sun just to reprimand the cocky Ruo He, even though this act would defy her temperamental father.

However, Sheng Xue has no idea that Ruo He had to wear smaller shoes and run to the college-the aftereffects of the slit bag and cut tire. After some problems, such as Ruo He going to the doctor's office and being eavesdropped on by Sheng Xue, and Ruo He using TRIO's powers to harass Sheng Xue, Ruo He gets a call from his strict, businessman father. The call was actually an invitation to a date-a date that Ruo He never knew about. He storms off, angry, as Ruo He had been hurt in the past by his ex-girlfriend, whom left him for another man after she saw that Ruo He was obsessed with his father's work. Due to his rude demeanor as a retalition to his father's interfering of his love life, his father's construction company is at stake. The mother of the blind date is a great sponsor in his father's company, and demands the title deeds to 13th Street. As Ruo He's father's company is his flesh and blood, Ruo He promises to get the land title deeds of 13th street-which he soon learns is under Sheng Xue's name. Ruo He plans to have a fake relationship with Sheng Xue to score rights to the title deeds.

However, what will happen when Ruo He starts truly falling for Sheng Xue?

Music

• Opening theme song: "鬥牛要不要" Dou Niu Yao Bu Yao (Do You Want To Bull Fight) - Tank (Taiwanese singer)
• Ending theme song: "最近還好嗎" Zui Jing Hai Hao Ma? (How Are You Lately?) - S.H.E.

Bull Fighting Original Soundtrack (鬥牛要不要 電視原聲帶) - The album won Best Original Soundtrack at the 2009 HITO Radio Music Awards presented by Taiwanese radio station Hit FM.

• Artist: Various artists
• Released: 7 December 2007
• Label: HIM International Music
• Language: Mandarin
• Format: Soundtrack (CD+DVD)
• Genre: Mandopop

Track listing

1. "鬥牛要不要" Dou Niu Yao Bu Yao (Do You Want To Bull Fight) - Tank (Taiwanese singer) (opening theme)
2. "最近還好嗎" Zui Jing Hai Hao Ma? (How Are You Lately?) - S.H.E. (ending theme)
3. "叫" (Yell) - Zheng Nan (鄭楠)
4. "愛來過" (Love Was Here) - S.H.E.
5. "困兽" (Trapped Beast) - Judy Zhou (周定緯)
6. "來不及" (Too Late) - Hebe Tian
7. "背影" (Back) - Yoga Lin
8. "放牛 Party" (Cattle Grazing Party) - Zhang Jia Wei (張家瑋)
9. "一觸即發" (On The Verge) - instrumental
10. "When I Think of You" - instrumental
11. "極道千金" (Gangster Daughter) - instrumental
12. "最近還好嗎" (How Are You Lately?) - instrumental
13. "對峙" (Standoff) - instrumental
14. "逗牛" (Bull Teasing) - instrumental
15. "危機" (Crisis) - instrumental
16. "迷幻青春" (Magical Youth) - instrumental
17. "挑釁" (Provoke) - instrumental
18. "戰爭之後" (After the War) - instrumental
19. "愛的鬥牛" (Bullfighting of Love) - instrumental
20. "球場下雪了" (It's Snowing in the Ball Court) - instrumental

DVD

1. 18 mins of Bull Fighting behind-the-scene footage

International broadcast

BullFighting had been aired in the Philippines in GMA Network from November 2, 2009 - November 23, 2009. BullFighting's name has been changed into Freestyle.