Linda Linda Linda

"High school girls play The Blue Hearts!"

Jul 23 2005 TV-PG 1h 54m
Comedy, Drama, Music

Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda".

Plot

Girls are friends, girls are not friends, girls come and go, but the band plays on in this film about a high school quartet with only three days to find a stable line-up, choose songs, rehearse and climb the stage at the rock music show of their annual festival. A foreign exchange student as a singer, a sullen guitarist, a shy bassist and a tom girl are a soaking wet band in a high school auditorium.

Written by

Kôsuke Mukai, Wakako Miyashita, Nobuhiro Yamashita

Directed by

Nobuhiro Yamashita

Cast

Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yû Kashii

Crew

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Production Countries

Japan

Production Companies

Covers & Co., Vap/Cave, Bitters End

Languages

Awards

1 win & 5 nominations total

Trailers
Linda Linda Linda Trailer with English Subtitles
Linda Linda Linda - trailer - IFFR 2006
Scores
# of Votes
5,671
Average Rating
7.5 out of 10
Metascore
71
Popularity
NA