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Rating: 7.5 stars

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jff Japan high school scandal teenagers drone ghost writer newspaper cheat

All movies seen on 09/30/2025

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The Scoop! (2024)

Directed by Keiichi Kobayashi

Drama

Overview

Tokoro Yui is a lover of literature and a huge fan of a famous student author known as Midorimachi Konoha. Unfortunately for her, her new school’s literature club is dominated by a group of elite students, preventing her from joining. However, the club’s leader Saionji Mari offers her a lifeline: if she can find out the true identity of the famous writer, she will be permitted to join the club.

Length 98 minutes

Actors

Karin Fujiyoshi | Akari Takaishi | Tomo Nakai | Rinka Kumada | Keito Tsuna | Nene Sotohara | Yutaro Goto | Miwako Kakei | Saburo Ishikura | Masahiro Takashima

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

another one from the current lineup at JFF Theater and one I did not want to miss before the quarter is over. It features two stars from BABY ASSASSINS: Akari Takaishi (Chisato) and Tomo Nakai (Mana the cleaner). I thought this movie was a lot older than 2024 bc both look so young. They’re portraying high school students in this, journalists for the rogue newspaper uncovering scandals and whatnot. They are both terrific. Akari is especially great, as expected.

The story is fun and little absurd with inappropriate behavior by the school principal (Masahiro Takashima) around the literary club. I like that the location is somewhere else in Japan than the usual Tokyo. Karin Fujiyoshi is the lead and unknown to me. She’s a former idol and hasn’t been acting very long but you wouldn’t know it. She is really good.

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