BAKA's Identity (2025)
愚か者の身分
To get by, Takuya and Mamoru pose as women in an online scheme, but when they try to leave this life, they must rely on their dangerous mentor for help.
- Date of release
- 2025-10-24
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Director
- Koto Nagata
Casting
- Takumi Kitamura — Takuya Matsumoto
- Yuta Hayashi — Mamoru Kakizaki
- Go Ayano — Kenshi Kajitani
- Mizuki Yamashita — Kisara
- Yuma Yamoto — Haruto Egawa
- Haruka Kinami — Yuika
- Kazuya Tanabe — Joji Ichioka
- Gôichi Mine — Hideto Sato
- Masaki Kaji — Kaizuka
- Yuya Matsuura — Toshio Maeda
- Ryohei Shima — Boggy
- Zuimaro Awashima — Yagawa
Interesting facts
Baka's Identity is a 2025 Japanese crime film directed by Koto Nagata and written by Kosuke Mukai, based on Jun Nishio's 2019 novel Orokamono no Mibun. The plot explores Japanese youth poverty in criminal underworld through the perspectives of a trio of young men who work as internet scammers.
Development
Jun's 2019 novel, which told the story of youth in Tokyo's Kabukicho red light district, was a sprawling narrative with numerous interconnected characters. Nagata and screenwriter Kosuke Muka chose to focus the script on three characters.
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