Linda Linda Linda
by Nobuhiro Yamashita
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Actor: Aki Maeda, Doona Bae, Shiori Sekine, Yuu KashiiDirector: Nobuhiro Yamashita
Brand: VIZ MEDIA
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language), Stereo
Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: YLLL01
Studio: VIZ Pictures, Inc.
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- Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei (Yu Kashii), drummer Kyoto (Aki Maeda of Battle Royale), and bassist Nozumi (Shiori Sekine) are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son (Doona Bae of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance), though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles t
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Movie Review: Linda Linda, Linda Linda Lindaaaa!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Don't tell us that when we are no longer kids, we grow up. When we grow up, we won't quit being kids. Where are the real we? Should the real we be here? We've only got a little more time to be the real us. ... We won't end here. It is not wrong to expect a miracle. We won't let our high school days become a memory. Is this wind the same as the one blowing the day after tomorrow? Will and courage will be kept in the same pocket. This is our kingdom. 2004 Shiba High Holly Festival."
That message spoken by a student of Shibazaki High School, has a twinge of poignancy. Second year in high school is indeed the last time high school students have fun. After that, they have to study like crazy for college entrance exams, to become adults in the real world.
At the school festival, "bunkasai" for those in the know, four girls want to do a band, but their guitarist Moe injures herself. An argument between keyboardist Kei and Rinko, both of who are short-tempered, results in the latter departing. The band, minus Moe and Rinko, consists of drummer Kyoko, shy bassist Nozomi, and Kei, now on guitar.
However, without Moe-chan, they can't write their own songs, nor have a lead singer, so they have to go the cover band route. Upon hearing 80's punk band the Blue Hearts' "Linda Linda", they decide to do three songs, that one, "My Right Hand," and the angst-ridden, but overall refreshing "Endless Song."
On an irresponsible whim and mostly to spite Rinko, Kei recruits Son, a painfully shy Korean exchange student whose grasp at Japanese is manageable at best. She is at first horrified to realize what she has talked herself into, but decides to do it, becoming chummy with her new friends. Most of the best scenes involve her, such as when she and Kei talk at the bus stop. Son's problems in understanding a karaoke place where she has to buy a drink to sing poses a humorous situation, as she wants to sing and not drink, but the clerk tells her she has to buy a drink. And she's just wonderful when she strolls out on the abandoned festival grounds, verbally imagining the scene, passing by the booths, then going on stage, and introducing the band. Heck, one boy even confesses his feelings for her, trying to speak good Korean.
Kyoko, the drummer, is doing double duty helping out with a banana stand for the culture fest. But she's also the most diplomatic and friendly, concerned about her fellow members as well as trying not to let her friends be put down. And she seems to have feelings for the shy and awkward Kazuya. Aki Maeda was a wonderful choice to play the lovable and friendly Kyoko.
It's enjoyable seeing the quartet practicing for their gig, hanging out with each other, and sharing this wonderful time together, even in a scene when they sneak into the band room at night, quietly singing and playing quietly so as not to get caught.
This is a interesting departure for Bae Du Na, having appeared in Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance and the Ring Virus. She is lovable and credible as Son.
I saw this movie on the plane coming back from Japan to America, and I loved every minute of it, anything for one last drop of Japanese culture. It helped me make up my mind to go back to Japan one day. Thanks, girls. And ex-Smashing Pumpkins' James Iha's moody but reflective keyboard music score is perfect!
Trivia: the name of the Jitterin' Jinn song about the upside down giraffe that cracks Kei up is "Purezento" or "Present."
After high school, comes the beginning of the students' wonderful endless song, per the Blue Hearts: "Let's sing a endless song, for this a--hole of a world/Lets sing a endless song, for all the trash out there/Let's sing a endless song, for me, and you, and them out there/Let's sing a endless song, so that we can all laugh tomorrow."
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Studio: Viz Media Llc Release Date: 04/24/2007 Run time: 114 minutes Rating: NrSimilar DVD Movies
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