Lucid NonsenseMovies / 2025
Rental Family
Completed
Seen in a theater
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.
- Release year
- 2025
- Released
- Nov 20, 2025
- Country
- United States
- Genres
- Comedy · Drama
- Directed by
- Hikari
- Written by
- Hikari · Stephen Blahut
- 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) · Takao Kin (Bartender) · Risa Kameda (Neighbor Girlfriend) · Yuma Sonan (Neighbor Boyfriend)
Review
Kinda sappy, extremely sweet, very well made, the final 15 minutes or so were some of my favorite scenes from films this year
Consumption history1
Completed
Theater viewing
External identifiers
- tmdb
- 1208348
- letterboxd
- JQOw