Synopsis
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".
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Cast
- Bae DoonaSon
- Aki MaedaKyoko Yamada
- Yuu KashiiKei Tachibana
- Shiori SekineNozomi Shirakawa
- Takayo MimuraRinko
- Shione YukawaMoe
- Yuko YamazakiNakajima
- Masahiro KoumotoKoyama sensei
- Kenichi MatsuyamaMakihara
- Katsuya KobayashiKazuya
Recommendations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
Sounds like silly fun -- and Linda Linda Linda is -- but it is also an extremely well-written, emotionally complex coming-of-age tale that has a John Hughesian respect for teenage angst. - 88
Chicago Tribune
These girls can cook, and Yamashita captures them with an austere, unhurried visual style that has been rightly compared to rock aficionado/filmmakers Aki Kaurismaki ("Ariel") and Jim Jarmusch ("Mystery Train"). [8 Dec 2006, p.2] - 83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Where you might expect either overheated teen melodrama or cartoonish farce, Nobuhiro creates a lively, engaging, character-driven piece with flourishes of offbeat humor dancing around the dynamics of the foursome as they pull together in rehearsals. - 75
Boston Globe
As directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita , the sluggish haze between extracurricular activities is exquisitely captured and framed, then patiently edited. Every shot feels like a gift. - 70
The New York Times
The irritations and tedium of high school life are staged with refreshing simplicity, while the performers interact with an age-appropriate naturalness the American teenage movie rarely achieves. - 30
Variety
This aimless, lifeless time-killer about four teenage girls prepping for their rock-band gig in a school talent show proves entirely the wrong choice.
