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Linda Linda Linda

2005 · 115 min

A gentle, meandering hangout that quietly builds to a joyful, cathartic performance.

Tagline
High school girls play The Blue Hearts!
Overview
Only three days before the school festival, a newly formed high school band rushes to put together a set for their big show — including a hit single by '80s by the Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • coming-of-age
  • music
  • identity
  • isolation
Places
  • school
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness1
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy, music, drama
Directed by
Nobuhiro Yamashita
Written by
Kosuke Mukai, Wakako Miyashita, Nobuhiro Yamashita
Starring
Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yuu Kashii, Shiori Sekine, Takayo Mimura, Shione Yukawa, Yuko Yamazaki, Masahiro Komoto
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
115 min
Country
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Languages
Japanese, Korean

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