Film

Rental Family at Łódź Manufaktura

Comedy / Drama · 110 min · 2025 · 647 IMDb votes

IMDb 7.6 Rotten Tomatoes 90% Metacritic 66 TMDB 7.8

4 wins & 1 nomination total

An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese 'rental family' agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. As he immerses himself in his clients' worlds, he begins to form genuine bonds that blur the lines between performance and reality.

Directed by Hikari

Cast

Brendan Fraser

Phillip Vanderploeg

Takehiro Hira

Shinji Tada

Mari Yamamoto

Aiko Nakajima

Shannon Mahina Gorman

Mia Kawasaki

Akira Emoto

Kikuo Hasegawa

Paolo Andrea Di Pietro

Handsome Actor

Shinji Ozeki

Casting Director

Yuji Komatsu

Neighbor Father

Gan Furukawa

Neighbor Old Man

Helen Sadler

Sonia