Real "K-on" Story: Linda Linda Linda

Linda Linda Linda

The plot is here from IMDb: The school Festival is about to begin and Kyoko (Aki Maeda), Kei (Yu Kashii), and Nozumi (Shiori Sekine) are looking for lead vocals after their band breaks up. Kei recruits Son (Du-na Bae), a Korean exchange student who is still learning Japanese. The girls choose perform three songs from The Blue Hearts, an 80s punk rock group. They choose, Linda, Linda, Linda, An Endless Song, and My Right Hand. They have several late night practice sessions while Son tries to perfect her Japanese and Kei struggles to play the guitar better. The girls each face typical high school drama. Kei has to ask an ex-boyfriend for help. Kyoko has a crush on Kazuya (Katsuya Kobayashi) and is excited when he asks for help at the crepe stand. Son is asked out by a Japanese student who tries to learn Korean to impress her. They each face different struggles while trying to master their songs for the school festival. They almost fail to arrive when they fall asleep practicing in Studio Q. On their race to get back to the school it begins to rain and they forget instruments, fall, and Kyoko almost fails to meet her crush to tell him how she feels. They finally arrive at the school festival just in time to deliver a good performance to the excited crowd.

Its trailar with English subtitle from YouTube is below. 

From Left: Du-na Bae, Sekine, Maeda, Kashii

Some of people must feel sort of boaring because it is completely not like Hollywood movie. One reviewer of IMDb exactly pointed out the characteristic of this firm: This movie is realistic in that it does not need artificial plot devices and major suspension of belief on the part of the audience. It just shows what ordinary teenage high school girls trying to put together a rock band in a few days for a festival would do in those precious few days of their lives. This is perhaps the last significant thing they will do before they head out to the real world.

Du-na Bae, Yu Kashii and Aki Maeda are young and talented actress in Korea and Japan. In controst, Shiori Sekine, playing Bass, is not. In her real world, she is a rock musician and belongs to a rock band "Base Ball Bear".    

Shiori Sekine

For Shiori Sekine, the movie's story is exactly real. When Sekine was a first grader student in her high school, she were requested from one of second grader students to play a keyboard for a school cultural festival. The student was Yusuke Koide, now Base Ball Bear's vocal and guitarist. This request eventually opened up making band and then Sekine changed to play a bass. In 2003, two year later from the festival, Base Ball Bear debuted. 

The participation by Sekine and other real musians gives the movie more effort adding reality. Shione Yukawa, playing an ex-band member who hurt her finger, is famous solo singer in Japan. Yuko Yamazaki, playing a senior of K-on club, is a leader of Japanese rock band "ME-ISM". 

I found three music videos of the movie from YouTube. First two of them are the ending scene of that.

THE BLUE HEARTS

THE BLUE HEARTS was a popular Japanese punk rock band that performed from the latter half of the 1980s to the early half of the 1990s. They have been compared to such bands as the Sex Pistols, The Clash and the Ramones. In 2004, The Blue Hearts were named by HMV Japan as one of the most successful and influential Japanese music group.

"Linda Linda" was first released for them on 1987. Lyrics and music were written by Hiroto Komoto, the band's lead vocalist. It remains one of the groups most popular songs. Other avobe tunes - "Owaranai Uta" and "Boku no Migite" are also their hit numbers.

You can  see "Linda Linda" played by THE BLUE HEARTS with Japanese lylics and English sibtitle.