Bounce Ko Gals Explained

Bounce Ko Gals

Native Name:

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Kanji:	バウンス ko GALS
Revhep:	Baunsu ko gaurusu

Director:

Masato Harada

Producer:

Masakatsu Suzuki

Music:

Masahiro Kawasaki

Cinematography:

Yoshitaka Sakamoto

Editing:

Hirohide Abe

Distributor:

Shochiku-Fuji Company

Runtime:

109 minutes

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

is a 1997 Japanese crime drama film written and directed by Masato Harada.^[1] ^[2] Its alternative English-language titles are Call Girls and Leaving.

Filmed in somewhat of a documentary style,^[3] it follows the course of three girls for a day and a night in the popular district of Shibuya in Tokyo.

The main characters are: Jonko (Hitomi Satô), who runs a group of high-school girls involved in paid dating (in Japanese Enjo Kôsai 援助交際), Raku (Yasue Sato) who is a high-schooler and also a street dancer; and Lisa (Yukiko Okamoto) who is a student, who worked for a year, saving enough money and a plane ticket, to go study in New York.

Cast

Hitomi Satō as Jonko
Yasue Sato as Raku-chan
Yukiko Okamoto as Risa
Kōji Yakusho as Ōshima
Jun Murakami as Sap
Shin Yazawa as Maru
Kaori Momoi as Saki
Maori as Kuji
Kaitō Ren as Shingo
Yūjin Harada as Moro
Hiroshige Ikeda as Neon
Hitoshi Kiyokawa as Tera
Kazuki Kosakai as Koide

Awards and nominations

40th Blue Ribbon Awards^[4]

Won: Best Film
Won: Best Director – Masato Harada
Won: Best Newcomer – Hitomi Satō

22nd Hochi Film Award^[5]

Won: Best Director – Masato Harada
Won: Best Actor – Kōji Yakusho

External links

- - Bounce Ko Gals at allcinema (in Japanese)
Bounce Ko Gals at KINENOTE (in Japanese)

Notes and References

Web site: https://movie.walkerplus.com/mv30289/. ja:バウンス Ko GALS. Bounce Ko Gals. May 3, 2015. Movie Walker Press. ja.
Web site: http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/Details?id=2695. ja:バウンス Ko GALS. Bounce Ko Gals. May 3, 2015. Japanese Cinema Database. ja.
Web site: Letterboxd . Letterboxd.
Web site: http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/b_award/1997/. ja:ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー. January 18, 2010. ja. Cinema Hochi. https://web.archive.org/web/20090207075826/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/b_award/1997/. February 7, 2009.
Web site: http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1997/. ja:報知映画賞ヒストリー. January 18, 2010. ja. Cinema Hochi. https://web.archive.org/web/20111005192909/http://cinemahochi.yomiuri.co.jp/h_award/1997/. October 5, 2011.