Nobuhiro YAMASHITA 山下敦弘
Linda Linda Linda
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Nippon Cinema ª
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarrist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozumi 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 Linda”...
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Japan 2005
114 minutes
Director
Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
Script
Nobuhiro YAMASHITA, Kosuke MUKAI, Wakako MIYASHITA
Cinematography
Yoshihiro IKEUCHI
Music
James IHA
Production
Bitters End
Distribution
Japanisches Kulturinstitut (The Japan Foundation)
Cast
Du-na BAE, Aki MAEDA, Yu KASHII, Shiori SEKINE, Takayo MIMURA
About Nobuhiro YAMASHITA
山下敦弘
Nobuhiro YAMASHITA, born in Aichi Prefecture in 1976, studied at Osaka University of Arts and started his career at Planet Studyo +1 in Osaka. His feature film debut HAZY LIFE (1999) was an international success and was screened in 2000 at the first Nippon Connection Film Festival. He had his commercial breakthrough with the comedy LINDA LINDA LINDA (2005 / NC ’08). Establishing his distinctive style with his subsequent works, including A GENTLE BREEZE IN THE VILLAGE (2007 / NC ’07), TAMAKO IN MORATORIUM (2013 / NC ’14), and OVER THE FENCE (2016 / NC ’17), YAMASHITA has become one of the major protagonists of the Japanese film industry.