Bounce Ko Gals (1997)

Original title

バウンス ko GALS

Directed by

Masato Harada

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows three teenage girls over a day and night in Tokyo's Shibuya district. One runs a group of schoolgirls involved in paid dating, another is a street dancer, and the third has saved money to study abroad.

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What happens

Bounce Ko Gals (Japanese: バウンス ko GALS, Hepburn: Baunsu ko gyaru) is a 1997 Japanese crime drama film written and directed by Masato Harada. Its alternative English-language titles are Call Girls and Leaving. Filmed in somewhat of a documentary style, 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 Satō), who runs a group of high-school girls involved in paid dating (in Japanese, Enjo kōsai); Raku (Yasue Sato), a high-schooler and street dancer; and Lisa (Yukiko Okamoto), a student who worked for a year, saving enough money to buy a plane ticket and travel to study in New York City. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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