Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for Linda Linda Linda (2005) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Bae Doona, Aki Maeda, Yuu Kashii, Shiori Sekine, Takayo Mimura, Shione Yukawa DIRECTOR: Nobuhiro Yamashita CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yoshihiro Ikeuchi MUSIC: James Iha PRODUCTION: Bitters End, Cave, Covers & Co., VAP

Box Office Performance

Linda Linda Linda earned $11,187 in worldwide box office revenue.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

PRODUCTION NOTES

▸ Music & Score

The soundtrack was released on July 20, 2005. The original instrumental tracks were composed by James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins. The vocal tracks include Paranmaum (the band from the movie) singing covers of the Blue Hearts songs "Linda Linda", "Boku no Migite (My Right Hand)" and "Owaranai Uta (Never Ending Song)". Kashii and Maeda learned to play their instruments specially for this movie. There are also two songs by Base Ball Bear (the band Shiori Sekine belongs to in reality); they are "Sayonara Nostalgia" and "April Mirage". These two songs can be heard playing in the "crêpe shop" scenes featuring Kyoko and Oe Kazuya. Shione Yukawa (who plays Moe Imamura in the movie) and Yuko Yamazaki (from the band me-ism) also perform a few songs on stage at the festival itself.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Summary: 1 win & 5 nominations total

CRITICAL RECEPTION

Linda Linda Linda was David Ehrlich's choice for IndieWire's 2018 list of the best Japanese films of the 21st century. He wrote that it was less profound than films such as Spirited Away (2001), Millennium Actress (2001), and Nobody Knows (2004), but praised it as "euphorically fun [...] so rich, so charismatic, and so damn catchy, you'll be itching to show it to all your friends".