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Linda Linda Linda (2005) poster

2005 · drama · comedy · music

Linda Linda Linda

Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita1h 55m2005

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.

Our read: Linda Linda Linda (2005) reads as a warm, steady, grounded drama · comedy · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.

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Cast
Bae DoonaAki MaedaYuu KashiiShiori SekineTakayo Mimura
Movie DNA

Warm, steady, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.

ElsewhereIMDb7.55kRT88%Metacritic71TMDB7.6154
  • warm
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • intimate
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DNA · twelve axes

How Linda Linda Linda feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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What watching it is actually like.

“You want gentle Japanese high school story of girls forming a punk band.”

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 25attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonight — Skip if you need big drama or can't handle subtitled slice-of-life.

If Linda Linda Linda is your film
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Japanese schoolgirls forming a band with charm and effort
(if you want punk attitude over jazz)
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(unless all-girl band is essential)
The Commitments (1991)
working class band coming together with soul and fights
(if you prefer quiet Japanese realism)
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