Linda Linda Linda

Following the break-up of their band three days before the school festival, Kei, Kyoko and Nozomi recruit Korean exchange student Son (Bae Doona - The Host; Sense8) to sing in their new line-up, despite Son’s slim grasp of Japanese. A fortuitous discovery of a tape by Japanese punk band The Blue Hearts provides the girls with the inspiration and the material for their performance. But with so few days until the show takes place, can they learn the songs in time?

Forgoing any of the usual glamour associated with forming a band in favour of highlighting the joy to be had by hanging with your friends, Linda Linda Linda slowly began to gain a cult following outside of Japan after a short-lived DVD release in the US. As word spread, copies of the DVD would be found on ebay, selling for large sums of money. Echoing the birth of punk itself, most people who watched it wanted to form a band - most notably LA four-piece The Linda Lindas, all of whom were under 15 when they formed in 2018, with only one of them actually born when the film was originally released in 2005.

An early film from director Nobuhiro Yamashita, whose career has gone on to feature both live-action and animation, most recently the cult anime Ghost Cat Anzu, Linda Linda Linda is as fresh as it was twenty five years ago, and now, thanks to a new 4K restoration to mark this anniversary, its sheer joy can be shared on the big screen again. Guaranteed to leave you smiling, whilst reigniting your punk band aspirations.