The 20th anniversary of the film “Linda Linda Linda” gives the coming-of-age comedy-drama a new 4K restoration and U.S. rerelease, which comes to Cambridge for a weeklong run starting Friday. The little film about a girls’ cover band in Japan has proven timeless in a way that keeps surprising even its director, Nobuhiro Yamashita.

“It’s still influencing me. I think it’s a mysterious movie that I can’t figure out myself,” Yamashita said in an Aug. 26 international video call aided by a translator.

The film begins with an accident: A band of teenage girls loses its guitarist to a broken hand. The remaining three members must adjust their positions and find a replacement vocalist for an upcoming performance. They ask Son, a Korean exchange student with little familiarity with the Japanese

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