Linda Linda Linda (2005)

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

How it feels

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)

Trailer

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