Linking Love

2017
1h 56m

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High School student Miyui Mashio is really struggling. She can't fulfill her dream of becoming an idol and her parents are always fighting. Suddenly, she finds a genie in a bottle and throug... Read allHigh School student Miyui Mashio is really struggling. She can't fulfill her dream of becoming an idol and her parents are always fighting. Suddenly, she finds a genie in a bottle and through an accident, finds herself back in 1991. She realizes she is now going to school with he... Read allHigh School student Miyui Mashio is really struggling. She can't fulfill her dream of becoming an idol and her parents are always fighting. Suddenly, she finds a genie in a bottle and through an accident, finds herself back in 1991. She realizes she is now going to school with her parents. But the problem is, her parents do not seem to get along - so Miyui will never ... Read all

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6.1/10

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9/10

"Anime and idol are proudly Japanese culture"

This review's title is a quote from a line in this movie. This film is over Anime and Japanese girls' idol. The director, Shusuke Kaneko has erabolated this work fabricating these atractive elements into a well-made comical Sci-Fi story. Obviously the story was inspirated by some American movies such as "Back to the future", "Sister Act" and "Pitch Perfect". It is one of enjoyable attractions of this to find which part is quoted from these(In fact, "Back to the future" is refered to in the movie). However, the point to evaluate this work is the cute, beautiful and talented actors who show some wonderful and magnificent dance sequences, namely Anna Ishibashi, Asuka Hinoi and Yu Mashima. These sequences may reach beyond the expectation of movie lovers who even have been fed up with many dance sequences of American movies. This movie's dance sequences are drawn from Japanese famous Idol group "AKB48". Some have known this group, but the fame of them is just localized in Asian area. This movie may be able to trigger to atract the popularity of Japanese idol from the world. To add some trivial things, the favoritism forward a specific menber of idol group is called "OSHI" meaning "push" in English. My "OSHI" is Yu Mashima playing the role "Sachie". I push her. She has pure and innocent appearance with high level of sports skill. This movie can exhibit very Japanese culture and also intoroduce Japanese new talented actors.