Ringo Cultural References
 

http://www.linda-movie.com/

I saw this utterly charming movie yesterday, and encourage you all to check it out. I bring it up here beacuse one of the girls in the band, while they are searching through old tapes and music books to figure out what songs they are going to cover for their high school "rock festival", suggests Shiina Ringo!

The suggestion immediately gets written off, because, as one of them states, they only have three days to learn it, and they don't really know how to play all that well to start with. The singer is a Korean exchange student, whose grasp of Japanese is pretty rudimentary. They go with covering The Blue Hearts, instead.

The movie is almost worth seeing just for the enigmatically strange Du-na Bae, who plays the lead singer, but the cast is all good.

Oh wow, that's so cool!! >_< I wonder how many other movies mention Ringo that we don't know about... Thanks for sharing that with us, since I probably won't be able to see the movie. T_T The movie does sound interesting, though. :(

I need to see this, and will.

I wonder if Swing Girls is good too? It sounds like basically the same movie.

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Linda Linda!! Linda-Linda-Linda-aaah!!

yeah, i laughed when they said, "too hard" in response to sr.

their cd is great - called "paranmaum" after their band name, which is the blue hearts in korean.

i love the film, and kashii yu (the guitarist) is very cool.

swing girls is similar, but a brass/swing band - a little more contrived, but i liked that too.

Other Ringo references:

in Hana Yori Dango 2, ep. 1, you can hear Surabal adult ver. during the episode (during a photo shoot with a model)

in Kareshi Kanojo no Jijoou (KareKano) the anime, at the end (the last episode I think) they go to karaoke and the main female characters says she's gonna sing Kabukichou no Joou

I saw Linda Linda Linda a while ago (maybe a year or two?) and I really loved it. Du-na Bae is one of my favorite Korean actresses and the movie was really fun in an awkward way. Worth seeing, but to be honest it isn't for everyone.

Anyway, I think I missed the Shiina Ringo reference...I wasn't a fan of hers back then. >_<

We all know Ringo is mentioned one or two times in All About Lily Shu Shu.

I didn't know that. o_o;; Is that a movie?

Woooow, cool!! *_* Thanks for sharing that! I'm going to stop being lazy and finally download HanaDan 2 now. >_<;;

in Ikebukuro West Gate Park (I so love this series =))) ), a girl sings Kokode kisu shite right at the beginning of episode 1 (or was it ep2? oO)!!