Lives of Three Teenage Girls in Sexual Relationships in Return for Cash

Lisa (Yukio Okamoto), a 17 year oil girl, who came to Tokyo and sold her panties and appeared in obscene films to make money to go to the US. But she got robbed of all the money.

She met other teenage girls, Raku (Yasue Sato) and Junko (Hitomi Sato) and loitered about with them.

"Bounce," directed by Masato Harada was allowed to play to 15 years or older in Korea because there was few obscene scenes, but it was first banned from the public in Japan. The film depicting teenagers’ life, in which they accompany middle-aged men in return for money like they do part time work at a store, also lays bare ugly aspects behind the establishment’s gentleman-like attitudes. They are busy in taking bribes and engaging in buying sexual relationships with teenagers.

However, you cannot expect in which direction the movie will go as the title has it. First, it seems focused on such sexual relationships between teenagers and middle-aged men, but toward the end, it turns into a youth film glorifying teenage girls’ friendship. Release on Dec.6.

Hee-Kyung Kim susanna@donga.com