在这部NMB48 艺人！电影版喜剧片中,2013年・第5回沖縄国際映画祭コンペティション「Laugh部門」で上映。大阪・難波を拠点に活動するアイドルグループ「NMB48」の冠番組として、2012年7～9月に日本テレビ系で放送されたシチュエーションコメディ「NMB48 げいにん！」を映画化。関西有数のお嬢様学校「なんば女学院」で、「全国女子高生お笑い選手権」（通称「JK-1」）出場を目指すお笑い部に、謎の美少女転校生がやってきたことから部内に巻き起こる騒動を描く。「なんば女学院・お笑い部」という舞台設定はそのままに、テレビ版とは異なるアナザーストーリーが展開。
Popular Osaka-based, all-girls' idol group, NMB48 -- the third iteration of Yasushi Akimoto's highly successful AKB48 & 48 Family j-pop franchise billed as the largest pop-group in the world and heralded in Japan as "Idols you can meet" encompasses over half a dozen affiliated girl groups based in major cities throughout Japan and Asia with 300+ active female members (in addition to 300 "graduated" or retired members now ensconced in solo careers of their own) ranging in age from 11-28 -- has proven yet again that the 'triple threat', i.e., the idol who can sing, dance and now act -- is the veritable gamechanger and industry standard in the iffy world of Japanese idols and talento. Now, out with a movie of their own, NMB48 is out to prove their acting chops -- i.e., as long as they get to play themselves, or characters very much like themselves. For NMB48, whose ages ranged between 14-20 in this 2013 movie, that means delimiting themselves only to roles that they can pull offf ...
