Rinda Rinda Rinda

Linda Linda Linda

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    With only 72 hours left until the school festival, the girls’ band Paranmaum is in crisis. After a conflict leaves them without a vocalist, the members make a desperate decision: they invite Song, a Korean exchange student who is not fluent in Japanese, to become their new singer. The performance seems to be the most important thing in the world: the girls spend nights in rehearsal rooms and laundromats, feverishly practicing the cult Japanese band The Blue Hearts’ hit “Linda Linda”.
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    “Rejecting melodramatic clichés, director Nobuhiro Yamashita opts for a minimalist style that allows the actors’ natural chemistry to shine. Bae Doona delivers a legendary performance, and the film’s rhythm perfectly mirrors the languid heat of a Japanese summer. It is a story that emphasizes how the most meaningful moments of friendship happen in the most mundane circumstances – eating ramen at three in the morning or waiting for a bus together.” (Programme curator Karolis Žukas)

    Awards

    • World Premiere
      Toronto International Film Festival, Contemporary World Cinema, 2005
    • Premiere
      Tribeca Film Festival, 4K Restoration Premiere, 2025

    Credentials

    • Directing
      Nobuhiro Yamashita
    • The script
      Wakako Miyashita, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Kosuke Mukai
    • Plays
      Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yû Kashii, Shiori Sekine, Takayo Mimura, Shione Yukawa, Yuko Yamazaki, Masahiro Kômoto, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Katsuya Kobayashi, Keisuke Koide, Masaki Miura, Kaori Fujii, Kôen Kondô, Pierre Taki, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Takeshi Yamamoto
    • Assembly
      Ryuji Miyajima
    • Camera
      Yoshihiro Ikeuchi
    • Music
      James Iha
    • Producing
      Hiroyuki Negishi, Yuji Sadai, Haruo Okamoto
    • Translation
      Lina Martišiūtė
    • Dialogues
      Japanese
    • Subtitles
      Lithuanian, English
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