Baka's Identity is a 2025 Japanese film directed by Koto Nagata which explores Japanese youth poverty in criminal underworld through the perspectives of a trio of young men who work as internet scammers.[1][2][3][4] It is based on a 2019 novel, Orokamono no Mibun, by Jun Nishio. The film was produced by Akira Morii.
The movie stars Takumi Kitamura, Go Ayano, and Yuta Hayashi as three young men who make a living by pretending to be young women and tricking men out of their identity papers that they can resell to others trying to establish a new life.[1]
Mamoru (Yuta Hayashi) and Takuya (Kitamura) as a pair chat up young men online, while sending in their female associate (Mizuka Yamashita) to convince men to sell their identities to “her”. The three work under their boss Sato (Goichi Mine).[5] The film tracks the descent of the three protagonists as they fool others and are scammed themselves.[5]
“Baka” is the Japanese word for idiot or fool, fearing to the victims of the trio's Internet scams. [4]
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.[2]
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