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Linda Linda Linda (2005)

Linda Linda Linda poster
Original title
リンダ リンダ リンダ
Directed by
Nobuhiro Yamashita
Genre
comedy film, comedy drama, musical film, teen film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 54m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 156 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A group of high school girls scramble to form a band for their school festival. They practice a punk song and work through friendship troubles along the way.

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What happens

Linda Linda Linda (リンダ リンダ リンダ) is a 2005 Japanese comedy-drama film directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita. It stars Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yu Kashii, and Shiori Sekine (of the band Base Ball Bear) as teenagers who form a band to cover songs by the Japanese punk rock band the Blue Hearts; the film's title comes from the hit Blue Hearts song "Linda Linda". Its first United States release, from VIZ Media, was on November 10, 2006. An English-subtitled DVD was released on May 8, 2007. The band, Paranmaum (Korean for "the Blue Hearts"), released a CD single in Japan and South Korea, We Are Paranmaum. In 2025, the 4K restoration of Linda Linda Linda premiered at the Tribeca Festival on 8 June and was released in cinemas in Japan on 22 August, and thereafter in other countries. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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