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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A youth-band story with DIY energy, deadpan humor and a vivid pop-art visual style. Like Linda Linda Linda, it turns music-making into a tender portrait of friendship and adolescent resilience.
02
Why this pick
This warmly observed school ensemble finds its rhythm through inexperienced students learning to play together. Its rehearsal-to-performance momentum and affectionate comic timing closely fit Linda Linda Linda’s communal musical lift.
03
Why this pick
Another sharply naturalistic Japanese high-school film, built from small social shifts and overlapping perspectives. It shares the unforced performances and gentle attention to students finding where they belong.
04
Why this pick
A breezy, wistful youth romance whose sunlit pop sensibility and love of music create a similarly freewheeling Japanese coming-of-age mood, balancing playfulness with fleeting melancholy.
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Why this pick
Its close-knit young women negotiate friendship, work and diverging futures with the same patient, humane observation. The Korean setting also makes a resonant companion to Son’s outsider perspective.
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01 / THE STORY
A group of schoolgirls have formed a band to perform at their high school cultural festival (Japan) in three days' time, but the guitarist and singer have quit. The remaining members, Kei, Kyoko, and Nozomi, decide to perform covers of Blue Hearts songs, including "Linda Linda", but need a new singer. They ask the first girl that walks by, Son, a Korean exchange student who is not fluent in Japanese, and name their band Paranmaum. The first day ends with all the girls working their hardest to learn their parts. Son practices at a karaoke parlor, and Kyoko talks to her crush, Kazuya.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Kyoko Yamada
Song
Maezono
Kei's mother
Pierre (as Piêru Taki)
Makihara
