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Kasumi loves singing until she is given a photo of herself mid-song by a boy she likes. Embarrassed, she quits, but is later encouraged to rejoin by Hiroshi, the leader of a rival all-male choir.
Reviewing Utatama for The Japan Times, Mark Schilling gave the film three out of five stars, describing it as "closer to a straight-ahead seishun eiga (youth film)" compared to Swing Girls and highlighted its "big chorus competition" scene as "soul-stirring".
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↑"夏帆主演、ゴスペラーズ初出演の映画！". Barks[ja] (in Japanese). 2007-11-30. Retrieved 2026-04-16. そして、合唱シーンには、山田耕筰、尾崎豊、MONGOL800、本作で映画初出演を果たしたゴスペラーズの提供曲と、クラシックやポップスの名曲が勢揃いしているこの『うた魂（たま）♪』。
↑Schilling, Mark (2008-04-04). "'Uta Tama'". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2026-04-16. The big chorus competition, though, is soul stirring, with everyone, punks and straights alike, singing their hearts out. "Uta Tama" finally lives up to its title.
