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[Floyd-the-k]

I've just been to see the movie 'Linda, Linda, Linda'. It's a 'they went out as amateurs but came back as stars' story, but very well told, about four high school girls who get a band together for a festival in Gunma in Japan.  One of the girls is Korean and has to work hard to sing in Japanese and to communicate with the others.
  The title comes from a song they sing by The Blue Hearts (an 80s Japanese punk band).  

see it if you can!

unintentional laugh of the night; the guy from the Japanese consulate made a speech comparing the director to Jim Jarmusch and said Jarmusch's name with a terrific air of triumph

[Goaty]

Link: http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/scary/" target="_blank">THE 100 SCARIEST MOVIE SCENES OF ALL TIME

[Floyd-the-k]

here's the Japanese-schoolgirl infested website - annoyingly I can't get any images off it

Link: http://www.linda-movie.com/" target="_blank">http://www.linda-movie.com/

[satchmo]

That looks so sweet. Exactly my thing, I'm gonna try and see this.

[ming]

Heh - that does look fun; shame it didn't make it to either of the films festivals I've been to recently (Reykjavik & Bergen), and there's crap-all chance of it just cropping up here.  Oh well.

I did get to see a classic Japanese anime though (Night on the Galactic Railroad) and a great Australian film though: Lucky Miles; I can't remember the last film I enjoyed as much as that.

Link: http://www.luckymiles.com.au/v1/" target="_blank">Lucky Miles

[Floyd-the-k]

ooh, look, someone's put some of the flick up on youtube

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQQUEicr6d8&feature=related" target="_blank">Parumnan?

[Bico]

This is available on DVD in the US if you've got a region-free player. I only watched it because I remembered the (damnably catchy) song, but the film's good, too.  Especially liked how the idea of just doing something dumb for its own sake can be a major motivating factor when you're no age at all - I suppose we can thank post-modern American yuuf-oriented screenwriting where the kids always talk like forty year-olds for that.

Densho Otako is good fun, too - I preferred the tv show, but the film's alright.

[Tiplodocus]

Ming, at Bergen, do you ever meet a Norg by the name of Petter Olsen?