Linda Linda Linda

Linda Linda Linda, one of Nobuhiro Yamashita’s most popular works, is a film about youth set in a modern day high school just outside of Tokyo. In the days before the school’s culture festival, a girl’s music group is facing a dilemma. They planned on playing an original piece of music but, three days before the festival, their guitarist appears to have broken her finger (actually she doesn’t want to break her nails) and an argument breaks out between the vocalist and the drummer, Kyoko (Aki Maeda). They need to find a new guitarist and vocalist. While the remaining three girls are pondering who to ask to be the new vocalist, they hear the song, “Linda Linda” by the famous Japanese rock band the Blue Hearts and decide that this is the song which they should perform.

They take a chance and ask a Korean exchange student, Son (Bae Doo-na) to be their vocalist even though her Japanese is not perfect and she’s never sung in front of an audience. They practice and practice but they don’t seem to be improving.

The girls each face their own different teenage struggles while trying to master their act for the school festival. Can they make their moment in the spotlight a success?