LINDA LINDA LINDA

LINDA LINDA LINDA - リンダリンダリンダ - 2005 - Nobuhiro Yamashita

PLOT:

This is a story about 4 girls’ effort to perform their rendition of The Blue Hearts’ songs at their school festival. The end.

Oh wait, their lead singer is anervous exchange student from South Korea that doesn't speak Japanese well.

The end.

NOTES:

The scene I remember the most about this film is the part when Kei pointed to the stairway and said something like, “the next person coming out is our lead singer,” and outcome BaeDoona looking ill and pale. That, and an almost 20 seconds of cut-to-cut camera switch of close ups with no dialog. 

ShioriSekine (bass player of the Base Ball Bear) act as the ParanMaum’s bass player and her band provided two songs on the soundtrack album, along with James Iha for the instrumental score and ParanMaum with their Blue Hearts cover. YuuKashii and Aki Maeda provided the visual goodie-goodie of the movie, and of course BaeDoonashowed us all how to look adorably pale and ill.

With no means to stereotype, but almost every Japanese movie that became my favorites have one similarity; they picture awkwardness well. Not one of those Hollywood “oh shit” moments, but the crickety, dot dotdot, big water animation behind the head kind of awkward. I love that.

To sum it up, LINDA LINDA LINDA delivers a light story about friendship and high school romance that will leave you with cuddly heartwarming feelings. Cute Japanese schoolgirls playing punk songs; there will be no other feelgood movie that’ll beat this one in a long time.

 

 

 Movie trailer

Them song music video

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