BOYS OVER FLOWERS (Seasons 1–2)

Boys Over Flowers (Hana Yori Dango, 2005) is a Japanese high-school drama-comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Tsukushi Makino, a working-class girl, lands in elite Eitoku Academy, where four heirs of the richest families — the F4 — rule the halls.

Tsukushi just wants to graduate unnoticed. Standing up for a friend, she crosses F4 leader Tsukasa Domyoji, and the whole school turns on the "weed." The harder they push, the less she bends. And the war between her and Domyoji slowly starts to look like something else entirely.

Adapted from Yoko Kamio's hit manga, this is the version that kicked off the poor-girl-meets-rich-bullies craze later remade across Korea, Taiwan and China. Inoue Mao and Matsumoto Jun lead. Want the original rather than the copies? Start here. Stream Boys Over Flowers online on iFILM.