Bounce Ko Gals

Bounce Ko Gals
Bounce Ko Gals
	Theatrical release poster
Kanji	バウンス ko GALS
Revised Hepburn	Baunsu ko gaurusu
Directed by	Masato Harada
Written by	Masato Harada
Produced by	Masakatsu Suzuki
Starring	Kōji Yakusho; Yasue Sato; Hitomi Satō; Yukiko Okamoto; Kaori Momoi; Jun Murakami; Shin Yazawa; Hitomi Miwa;
Cinematography	Yoshitaka Sakamoto
Edited by	Hirohide Abe
Music by	Masahiro Kawasaki
Production; companies	Panasonic Digital Contents; Teichiku; TV Tokyo; Horipro; Shochiku;
Distributed by	Shochiku-Fuji Company
Release date	October 18, 1997 (Japan);
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Bounce Ko Gals (Japanese: バウンス ko GALS, Hepburn: Baunsu ko gaurusu) 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

References

^ バウンス Ko GALS [Bounce Ko Gals] (in Japanese). Movie Walker Press. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
^ バウンス Ko GALS [Bounce Ko Gals] (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
^ "Letterboxd". Letterboxd.
^ ブルーリボン賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2010.
^ 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2010.